What to use for finding as many syntax errors as possible.

[Karsten Hilbert]

Am Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 06:59:36PM +0200 schrieb Antoon Pardon:

> Op 9/10/2022 om 17:49 schreef Avi Gross:
> >My guess is that finding 100 errors might turn out to be misleading. If you
> >fix just the first, many others would go away.
>
> At this moment I would prefer a tool that reported 100 errors, which would
> allow me to easily correct 10 real errors, over the python strategy which quits
> after having found one syntax error.

But the point is: you can't (there is no way to) be sure the
9+ errors really are errors.

Unless you further constrict what sorts of errors you are
looking for and what margin of error or leeway for false
positives you want to allow.

Karsten
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