My inclination is to include type checking and linting in base Julia,
automatically invoked by a "paranoid" mode that also ignores inbounds
annotations and such. Then the testing infrastructure should run tests in
paranoid mode, linting and type checking the code to be tested. This seems like
a good point to have that kind of check automatically since you're already
asking for that kind of feedback. Since packages should always have tests, this
will also serve to make sure that packages pass type check and lint inspection.
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Sam L <sam.len...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd be strongly in favor of that, but it would make Julia feel more like
> > one of those static languages for which compilers readily warn you about
> > your bad habits.
>
> Maybe Lint and TypeCheck should display their message with a
> `suggest("blah")` or `hint("blah")` that is printed in purple instead of a
> red warning. :)
>
>> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:39:11 PM UTC-7, Bradley Alpert wrote:
>> I for one am thrilled to be able to program every day in such a beautiful,
>> flexible, clean language with generally good performance and in which
>> sparkling performance is possible. By comparison, performance instability
>> is a minor matter.
>>
>> There, I have thoroughly discredited myself by banal chatter!
>>
