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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Is there a lint equiv for pascal?
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Date: 14 Feb 89 06:00:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: erict@flatline.UUCP's message of 14 Feb 89 05:01:05 GMT

[ This is about wanting lint for Pascal ]

In article <321@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
>Telling me that I have an unequal number of comment start/stops would be
>nice.  Counting my begins and ends would be nice as well.

  Better Pascal compilers take care of this.  Counting begins and ends
is required by the Pascal syntax; if you mean "giving useful information 
about where they don't match", it depends on the compiler.  I've been
spoiled under VAX/VMS, I guess.  The same goes for comments (lots of
compilers give warnings about attempted nesting).

>I'm beginning to think that my pascal compiler is rather weak in the
>following-the-rules and being-helpful catagories.

  Yep, sounds like it.  Guess you're out of luck, unless you can find
a better compiler or a lint-like substitute. :-(  (Or wait for the GNU
Pascal compiler :-)
  Good luck.

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