thanks for starting this project. I wish you success in your endeavor to make it an outstanding resource for C++ programmers worlwide. Obviously, for now it is still in its infancy, but I do hope you'll keep up the good work.
I think one of the next things you might want to add is support for ignoring comments. Most non-toy C++ programs do have comments, and as far as I can tell, version 0.1 does not ignore comments.
Best wishes,
Ulrik P.
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Thank you for replying. I will certainlly be looking to add a pre-pass handling most of the comments and other necessary preprocessing.
Right now I am just terribly busy with school so progress is a bit slow. More to come soon!
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2005-10-17
I think its great that someone is making a free/oss alternative to the great pclint software (which is really expensive...). The first thought that comes to mind is that adding "procedural C++" capability from the original lint sources would form a nice base to work with.
C++ has backwards compatibility with C so it would be great if cpplint could work with the C compatibility layer. I know it doesn't sound like much, but there are things that were improved upon with C++ like declaring variables where you use them as well as the new and delete keywords instead of mallocs that could be done for starters.
Anyway, just a suggestion for you. Thanks so much for starting this project up and I hope you can get a lot of help so it doesn't take ten years to catch up with the likes of pclint :)
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For anyone that is browsing projects, how about you help me out a bit?
What would you like to see in a C++ lint program?
Hi Razzer,
thanks for starting this project. I wish you success in your endeavor to make it an outstanding resource for C++ programmers worlwide. Obviously, for now it is still in its infancy, but I do hope you'll keep up the good work.
I think one of the next things you might want to add is support for ignoring comments. Most non-toy C++ programs do have comments, and as far as I can tell, version 0.1 does not ignore comments.
Best wishes,
Ulrik P.
Hi Razzer,
you may be interested in this FAQ article:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/coding-standards.html#faq-27.10
"Are there any lint-like guidelines for C++?"
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Ulrik P.
Thank you for replying. I will certainlly be looking to add a pre-pass handling most of the comments and other necessary preprocessing.
Right now I am just terribly busy with school so progress is a bit slow. More to come soon!
I think its great that someone is making a free/oss alternative to the great pclint software (which is really expensive...). The first thought that comes to mind is that adding "procedural C++" capability from the original lint sources would form a nice base to work with.
C++ has backwards compatibility with C so it would be great if cpplint could work with the C compatibility layer. I know it doesn't sound like much, but there are things that were improved upon with C++ like declaring variables where you use them as well as the new and delete keywords instead of mallocs that could be done for starters.
Anyway, just a suggestion for you. Thanks so much for starting this project up and I hope you can get a lot of help so it doesn't take ten years to catch up with the likes of pclint :)