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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'Compiler' functionality for Emacs Lisp
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:54:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5imehqg.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87hbjjgdbd.fsf@decebal.nl

> When using for example C++ the compiler does a lot of checks for you.
> For example it checks if all your variables are declared or used and
> it does even find potential memory leaks. Is there something like this
> for Emacs Lisp? I am writing bigger functions nowadays. Yesterday I
> found out that not all my variables where declared in a let block and
> I had forgotten to remove a few I where not using anymore. Is there
> something that could do these checks for me?

The byte-compiler's warnings are pretty much the "best" there
is currently.


        Stefan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-29  3:46 'Compiler' functionality for Emacs Lisp Cecil Westerhof
2010-07-29  4:47 ` Fren Zeee
2010-07-29  7:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-29  9:54 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-07-29 11:47 ` Elena

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