[Haskell] ANN: HLint 1.0

[Lennart Augustsson]

Another parse error:

newtype CodeGenModule a = CGM (StateT CGMState IO a)
    deriving (Monad, MonadState CGMState, MonadIO)


On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pleased to announce HLint, a tool for making suggestions to
> improve your Haskell code. Previously this tool was called Dr Haskell
> and depended on a working installation of Yhc - both of those have now
> changed. HLint requires GHC 6.10*, and to install simply type:
>
> cabal update && cabal install hlint
>
> If you haven't yet installed the cabal command, instructions are here:
> http://ghcmutterings.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/bootstrapping-cabal-install/
>
> As an example of what HLint does, running "hlint darcs-2.1.2" over the
> latest stable release of darcs gives 385 suggestions, including:
>
> darcs-2.1.2\src\CommandLine.lhs:46:1: Use a string literal
> Found:
>  [' ', '\t', '"', '%']
> Why not:
>  " \t\"%"
>
> darcs-2.1.2\src\CommandLine.lhs:49:1: Eta reduce
> Found:
>  quotedArg ftable
>    = between (char '"') (char '"') $ quoteContent ftable
> Why not:
>  quotedArg = between (char '"') (char '"') . quoteContent
>
> darcs-2.1.2\src\CommandLine.lhs:94:1: Use concatMap
> Found:
>  concat $ map escapeC s
> Why not:
>  concatMap escapeC s
>
> To see all the hints in a nice interactive document visit
> http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/hlint/hlint-report.htm
> (recommended if you are thinking of trying out hlint)
>
> All necessary links, including a manual, hackage links, bug tracker
> and source code can be found from the tool website:
> http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/hlint/
>
> Acknowledgements: Niklas Broberg and the haskell-src-exts package have
> both been very helpful. The darcs users mailing list gave many good
> suggestions which I've incorportated.
>
> Please direct any follow up conversations to haskell-cafe@
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
> * Why GHC 6.10? View patterns.
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