Reasons for Lint rules

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Feb 25 18:09:00 UTC 2005


Yes Frank really if you want to improve it this would be great.
Some rules are also totally obscure. :)

Stef

> 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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