Re: [ANN] luacheck 0.7.2

[Eduardo Tongson <propolice@...>]

Awesome. Knocked out a couple of bugs for me.

Thanks and Happy New Year!!

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Peter Melnichenko <mpeterval@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to announce a new release of luacheck[1].
>
> luacheck is a static analyzer and a linter for Lua which detects
> issues like accidental globals, unused variables and values, etc. It
> is fairly configurable and can be used as a part of automated testing,
> manually from the command line or inside an editor[2]. It can be
> installed using luarocks.
>
> The only new thing in luacheck 0.7.2 is a flow analysis pass replacing
> old and naive AST-walking checker. This improves quality of unused
> value detection in some cases, e.g. in the following snippet first
> value assigned to `var` is now detected as unused:
>
>     local var = expr1()
>     if cond() then
>        var = expr2()
>     else
>        var = expr3()
>     end
>     use(var)
>
> In the next release I plan to add a few new diagnostics using data
> gathered using flow analysis; I decided to make an intermediate
> release as internally there were a lot of changes and I want to fix
> any possible bugs before releasing 0.8.0.
>
> Any feedback is welcome.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Peter
>
> [1] https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck
> [2] https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck#editor-support
>