From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T09:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Lint for Ruby

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, gabriele renzi wrote:

> (http://www.pronovomundo.com/htu/theses2004/checkr_olofsson_thesis_final_040521.pdf)


I take part of what I said back. There is one idea in that thesis that
would be pretty useful and very easy to do.

There is a really really very simple lint program I want to write.

* Find all identifiers in a body of code.
* Give me a list of near misses in name space.

For example if the code contained the words do_stuff, dostuff,
doStuff, dstuff,dostuf I would want a list of all of them.

That should be really pretty easy to write.

Anybody want to play with?


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