From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml code style and syntax checking
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 15:03:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170704140334.GB18152@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170704140128.GA18152@annexia.org>
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 03:01:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I have a need to make automated stylistic and syntax checks to
> a large amount of OCaml code. The sort of rules would be:
>
> - Check that indentation is used, and used consistently.
>
> - Excessive use of parentheses where not needed.
>
> - Use ( .. ) instead of begin .. end.
>
> - Flag uses of various Obj.* and unsafe_* functions.
>
> It seems to me that some of these could be tested with either camlp4
> or ppx. I think if we allowed the checker to go back to the original
> code (eg to see if the parser parsed as block as '(' or 'begin'),
> it might be able to check all of these things.
>
> Anyway, before I start on it I'm wondering if anyone has ever
> looked at doing this kind of thing?
Now that I actually formulate the right search terms, I see
that ocp-lint exists :-/
Rich.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-04 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-04 14:01 Richard W.M. Jones
2017-07-04 14:03 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2017-07-04 14:21 ` Mark Bradley
2017-07-11 12:22 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2017-07-11 13:03 ` François Bobot
2017-07-11 13:11 ` Sébastien Hinderer
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