Re: Import wildcards harmful?

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Hi David & all,

On Dec 20, 2007 11:10 PM, David Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:

> We don't try to enforce "good programming practices" in the Joe-E
> verifier.
>

Ok, makes sense. It's all too easy to hoark this one up inadvertently,
though, but you do address this here --

Instead, I've had in my mind that the right way to do this is to build a
> separate "capability lint" tool.  The caplint tool would scan your code
> for dangerous programming practices and coding patterns that tend to
> violate "the capability way", and warn you about everything it finds in
> your code.


Right, that sounds just great! The wildcard import thingey is subconscious
when the IDE does it: I hardly ever look at my imports any more; I just hit
Control-Whatever and let the tool take care of it. There is a setting to
control wildcard generation, but I often forget to mess with it. Presumably,
the IDE plugin should include the lint tool, so this would not be an issue.

Thank you and regards,

Ihab

-- 
Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA

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