Re: [ANN] Luacheck 0.19.0

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the main reason for using Luacheck?
> 
> (a) A debugging tool.
> (b) Enforcing a certain style of coding.
> (c) Advising a programmer on things in his program that
> might make trouble one day.
> 
> Unless you use it for (b), I would not be concerned about the
> occasional extra warning in situations where any human can
> see it is OK. Turing has already taught us that we can't use
> a program to test correctness of a program. Why clutter
> Luacheck with exceptional cases?

This seems reasonable enough, and my point wasn’t to force luacheck to do
enormous amounts of work. But I still think that a linter for language
X shouldn’t (in general) warn against using standard idioms in language X.

P
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