Re: Emacs Lisp Linter fail to identify function defined in a "use-package" block

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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We don't try to maintain MELPA packages -- they are not part of Emacs.

I suppose this lint program is useful; it must report some potential
problems.  But instead of writing a lint program for Emacs, maybe we
can do this job better by integrating that functionality into the
Emacs Lisp compiler.

That is what I did for C.

The original `lint' program was part of Unix in the 1980s.  It
reported possible wrrors that the Unix C compiler did not try to
detect.

I thought that the need for a separate `lint' program was a design
flaw, so instead of writing a free `lint' for GNU, I made GCC report
those possible errors.  Thus, the GNU system did not need a `lint'
program.  You only needed to run one program over your C source, that
being GCC, and it would do both jobs.  That proved to be a big
improvement.

Whatever the potential problems are that the Emacs Lisp `lint'
reports, can we make the byte compiler report them?

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