It occurs to me that it'd be nice to see a rationale for the Lint rules. Like, say, in a balloon text when you hovered over the title of the rule in the SmallLint Results window.

For instance, "Uses the result of an add: message" - why is it bad form to do so? I mean, OrderedCollection>>add: does in fact return the object you added.

Some of the rules are obvious like the 'Uses "size = 0" etc etc' rule, but some really aren't. At least, not to me. (And of course what's obvious to me isn't obvious to J. Random Squeaker).

frank


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