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Style checking belongs in a plug-in. That way, different organizations can provide their own style checkers that run along with their builds without forcing the union of all styles into the mainline Clang front-end. Better yet, maybe someone will build a configurable style checker as a plugin, to save the effort of everyone having to implement their own plugin separately.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>This is certainly something I'd like to get going if/when I get the time/familiarity (or if someone beats me to it, I'd be more than willing to contribute). Style checker & auto-fixer, of course (astyle with teeth?).<br>
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I'd like to hear more opinions on whether others consider the proposed warnings to be coding style enforcement, or whether they are generally useful.<br></blockquote><div><br>I tend to agree - I think the right feature for the compiler here is instead to make it easy to ensure that while you continue to write C++03 you don't write it in such a way that it won't be sensible C++11 and I believe Clang already has some such warnings in C++03 mode about use of identifiers or features that might cause problems if the code were compiled as C++11 (correct me if I'm wrong there - if Clang doesn't have such behavior I think it would be a reasonable thing to add). Rather than supporting a strange (& as you point out, off by default) mode of compiling C++11 without any C++11 features. By supporting warnings in C++03 mode it's also less likely that it will be construed as complete/accurate support - the warnings are a best effort to ease your portability up to C++11, but nothing, short of compiling (& testing) the code in both modes, is going to get you all the way there.<br>
<br>- David<br></div></div>