Re: Common Lua (Logic/Style etc) Errors Detectable Through Static Analysis

[Jon Akhtar <akhtar@...>]

Here is a full list of what I have currently (in source form with comments)

http://bitbucket.org/sylvanaar2/lua-for-idea/src/28d247b03fb9/test/lang/parser/basic/inspections.lua

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Jon Akhtar <akhtar@mindspring.com> wrote:
> As I have mentioned a couple times on the list. I am working on a
> plugin to support Lua under the IntelliJ IDE.
>
> One of the hallmarks of JetBrains (the maker of IntelliJ) is the
> notion of an intelligent semantically aware text editor.
>
> To honor this I have been creating what are called "inspections" which
> find common flaws in code and either flag them, or flag them and offer
> to fix them.
>
> To give you an example:
>
> This is a subtle coding error:
>
> a,b,c = 1,2
>
> It is not explicitly clear that c is being assigned a nil value.
>
> So my plugin detects this condition, and offers to pad the rvalues
> with nil to equal the lvalues.
>
> Here is a screencast of what I am talking about (it is very short,
> don't worry): http://screencast.com/t/87hXGJRjp2
>
> I have a few others, that don't have fixes, such as concatenation of a
> string in a loop, access of array index 0, divide by 0, and a couple
> others.
>
> I am looking for more, so I thought I would ask the list for some suggestions.
>
> Thank you all in advance,
>
> Jon
>