linter/checker for single-threaded state via numbered variables?

[Led]

Since Erlang doesn't allow you to rebind a variable in a scope where it's
> already bound (that becomes a match instead), there is a convention of
> using numbered variables to denote successive "generations" of some object
> or state that's intended to be used in a single-threaded or linear way.
> For example:
>
> foo(X0) ->
>   X1 = update(X0),
>   case predicate(X1) of
>     true ->
>       X2 = another_update(X1),
>       persist(X2);
>     false ->
>      persist(X1)
>   end.
>
>
foo(X0) ->
    X = update(X0),
    persist(case predicate(X) of
                true -> another_update(X);
                false -> X
            end).

Start to hate me:)


> Here, whenever X(N+1) becomes bound, X(N) should become unused, and it
> should be an error if X(N) did not become unused.  A variation is that the
> "final" value is the one without a number suffix.
>
> Is there any Erlang linter or style checker that can perform these types
> of checks?
>


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