[LLVMdev] sample of running google c++ lint script

Manuel Klimek klimek at google.com
Fri Jun 8 04:53:48 PDT 2012


On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
> > While humorous, let's dial back the trolling at this point. =] This
> > discussion is a largely serious discussion,
> The tablegen part, maybe.
> Discussing whether whitespace is technical debt, i hope that's not a
> serious discussion :)
>
> It doesn't even meet wikipedia's somewhat muddled
> discussion/definition of technical debt.
>
> Even broader style conformance issues are not technical debt, in the
> sense that you can eliminate it any time you want, 99.8%
> automatically.
>

While not technical debt, for some it is a broken window. Broken windows
can lead to increases in technical debt. Humans are so strange.

Cheers,
/Manuel
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