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From: purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++Lint thingees (was: Re: Smart Pointers -- A proposed language extension)
Message-ID: <Feb.5.16.07.07.1991.1899@morley.rutgers.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 21:07:09 GMT
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rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>I consider it to be a fundamental part of the job of a "compiler" to
>perform a good deal of "checking" on the programs (or sub-hunks of
>programs) that I feed it.  Placing some of the checking into a separate
>tool is like inviting somebody to write crappy code. 

	It also invites compiler suppliers to either not supply the
'lint'oid and/or charging more money for it (which means some users do
without).  If the checking is in the standard, this is at least less
likely to happen (although I can see vendors advertising "standard
compatibility" add-on programs and rubbish like that).

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