[erlang-questions] warnings for "not recommended" usage of language constructs

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi!

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Kostis Sagonas <kostis@REDACTED> wrote:

> On 05/17/2014 05:03 PM, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
>
>> The current implementation looks like it just goes through the different
>> checks sequentially, so it shouldn't be a huge amount of work to extract
>> the steps to separate modules.
>>
>
> Please don't. This is a terrible idea. Among other reasons, there is no
> point in further polluting the module name space.
>
> Kostis
>

Ok, I can agree with that. Then the plug-in checkers should be functions
and the default ones could still be located in erl_lint.

The reason I said modules was that in the general case a plug-in may have
multiple API/SPI entry points and in Erlang the only structure above
functions is a module. I can imagine having the concept of modules
separated from that of a source code file (i.e. dynamic modules) and those
could be applied here, but I feel that is a discussion that I am not ready
for at this moment.

regards,
Vlad
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