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Ticket #50 (new enhancement)

Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

Warn about comparisons to the same variable

Reported by: Chuck Owned by:
Priority: medium Milestone:
Component: Cobra Compiler Version: 0.8.0
Keywords: warning, comparison Cc:

Description

Comparisons to the same variable should cause a warning:

if x == x
if x == +x
if x > x*1
  • It could be any of the comparison operators
  • The compiler should not be confused by identity operations such as +0, *1 and unary plus (+x); or by syntactic cruft like extra parenthesis.

The warning should read:

A comparison made to same variable. Did you mean to compare something else?

It might be desireable to extend this to properties, if we reach a decision that the Cobra compiler can assume that properties do not have side effects and that multiple threads are not allowed to mutate an object in parallel. If that assumption is too strong, we might consider a compiler flag for it.

if x.name == x.name ...

Change History

Changed 16 years ago by Chuck

See also ticket:51 which overlaps with this.

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