| ??? 05/10/12 23:39 Read: times |
#187315 - lint isn't really a syntax checker Responding to: ???'s previous message |
On the other hand - lint shouldn't be described as a syntax checker. Lint was developed for use together with a compiler, so the compiler already had all the required syntax checking.
Lint is a tool designed to scan through source code and check for questionable constructs. Modern compilers have integrated a lot of similar tests, to detect uninitialized variables, code that may skip the variable initialization, potential assign instead of compare, ... |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Interreted Languages - revisited | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No Tools? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Interpreted is always problematic for complex problems | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's more than just syntax | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| lint isn't really a syntax checker | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yea That | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Static code analyser | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Exception handling | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| exceptions are normally too little too late | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the issue with interpreted languages is ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| interpreted languages are more than "throw away code" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I hate throwing objects in the cogs, but... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Someone else responsible for compiling the interpreter | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
But the same applies to compiled languages! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Disagree | 01/01/70 00:00 |