feature request: hint generation for empty statements
Original Reporter info from Mantis: kays @KaiBurghardt
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Reporter name: Kai Burghardt
Original Reporter info from Mantis: kays @KaiBurghardt
- Reporter name: Kai Burghardt
Description:
In modern high-level programming empty statements are usually not desired.
Suggestion: Compiling the following program with the flag -vh
program null(input, output, stderr);
begin
;
if true then;
writeLn('foo');
end.
generates the hints
null.pas(4,2) Hint: empty statement
null.pas(5,14) Hint: empty statement
Additionally one may introduce some equivalent to {$warn identifier off}.
Additional information:
The default setting, that hints aren't printed by default, remains undisputed.
Mantis conversion info:
- Mantis ID: 35365
- OS: GNU/Linux
- OS Build: 4.2.0
- Build: 3.0.4+dfsg-11 [2017/12/30]
- Platform: x86_64
- Version: 3.0.4