Funny mistake
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sat Mar 23 03:22:25 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar21.021504.25553 at murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w at astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>2) Experiance has shown that having lint seperate from the compiler
>means that many people would not use it.
More to the point, with the (important) exception of intermodule consistency
checking, the notion that doing lintish checking in the compiler costs a lot
extra is a *myth*. The compiler already has almost all the information it
needs to do most of lint's checks; it merely needs to pay attention to what
it already knows. There needs to be a way to shut it up, since suspicious-
looking constructs are sometimes legitimate, but there's just no good reason
why a compiler shouldn't do most of that checking routinely.
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