Changelog of @hackage/hlint 1.9.29

Changelog for HLint

1.9.29 #219, add warnings about foldable methods on tuple Put warnings before suggestions in the HTML report 1.9.28 #215, spot newtype deriving inside classes 1.9.27 #203, avoid recompiling everything twice #213, don't suggest removing bang patterns on let Rename HintStructure to HintPattern #208, add an hlint function to the HLint3 API #1, warn about unused DefaultSignatures extension #137, add -XHaskell2010 and fix -XHaskell98 Allow checking even if a function has different arities #193, don't warn on a -> (b -> c), it's sometimes sensible #182, make parse errors severity Error #181, warn on otherwise in a pattern variable #163, eta reduce fun x = f $ x #132, don't ever suggest liftM #99, downgrade built in hints, Error => Warning => Suggestion #99, add a Suggestion level severity #207, make sure you close file handles #205, add hint compare x y == EQ and /= #204, add hint concatMap id ==> concat #202, include refactorings is --json output 1.9.26 #200, fix all lint warnings #143, expose argsSettings 1.9.25 #192, fix stdin output and --refactor 1.9.24 #188, improve spotting redundant brackets around patterns #138, reenable redundant where hint 1.9.23 #184, require haskell-src-exts-1.17 #183, allow test_ as a prefix 1.9.22 Don't suggest redundant lambda on view patterns Add --no-exit-code flag #174, don't suggest string literals #175, disable 'rec' stealing extensions by default #170, add hints for eta-reduced operators #149, integrate a --refactor flag #147, fix the -fglasgow-exts hint #140, better name for moving brackets to eliminate $ Extra hints for <$> Remove a redundant fmap hint #131, add =<< rules in addition to >>= 1.9.21 #130, ignore a BOM if it exists #128, don't find files starting with . when searching directories Suggest concat even if the [] is written "" 1.9.20 #122, fix the zipWith/repeat hint 1.9.19 #119, don't remove RecursiveDo if they use the rec statement Add a suggestion concatMap/map ==> concatMap 1.9.18 More GHC 7.10 warnings and build support 1.9.17 #116, support hscolour-1.21 1.9.16 #108, make "hlint ." work again 1.9.15 #106, avoid warnings with GHC 7.10 #105, build with GHC 7.10 1.9.14 #649, don't suggest const for values using RecordWildCards 1.9.13 #97, remove the encoding bits of the API #98, add an HLint3 prototype API #93, make the --quickcheck tests work on GHC 7.8 Add --tempdir flag to the test mode 1.9.12 #96, fix the --utf8 flag Make Encoding an alias for TextEncoding Default to UTF8 encoding 1.9.11 #95, don't suggest camel case for names containing digits Add a dependency on the extra package #92, use a new way for determining the color default Add a dependency on ansi-terminal 1.9.10 Spot unsafePerformIO without NOINLINE 1.9.9 #89, fix compiling the executable with --flag=-gpl 1.9.8 #82, don't crash on XmlHybrid modules #88, allow avoiding HsColour, as it is GPL licensed #87, don't push if down, since it can be type incorrect 1.9.7 #86, don't use color unless $TERM claims to support it 1.9.6 #85, fix the free variable matching check for lambda #84, suggest fmap for Either Make --json put each hint on a different line Support -X for extensions to the hse mode 1.9.5 Remove support for GHC 7.2 Upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.16 1.9.4 #81, fixes for GHC 7.9 #78, add hints for list patterns #72, make --color the default on Linux 1.9.3 #73, fix multithreading and exceptions 1.9.2 #68, add --no-summary 1.9.1 #65, add flip (>>=) ==> (=<<) and the reverse #61, add --json flag 1.9 Remove not (isControl x) ==> isPrint (not true for '\173') #57, warn on invalid pragmas Make the API pass and require comments #59, make sure qualified operators match properly Rename notTypeSafe annotation to noTypeCheck Remove an invalid rule suggesting tanh #13, add a --quickcheck flag to test the hints Add --typecheck flag to test mode to type check the hints Remove incorrect for intercalate to unlines #37, remove incorrect hint for isAlphaNum #45, add mapMaybe id ==> catMaybes #42, add some repeat hints 1.8.61 #40, allow haskell-src-exts-1.15 Don't detect redundant Generics extension 1.8.60 #33, add --cpp-file to preinclude a file #34, add back --quiet flag #639, don't suggest evaluate, because not all Monad's are IO #31, delete the elem/notElem hints #30, remove weird "free module" matching #15, add prototype grep mode Change to make test a separate mode #12, more list based suggestions #637, turn off QuasiQuotes by default 1.8.59 #27, fix up directory file searching 1.8.58 Move the API to Language.Haskell.HLint2 #638, ensure \(! doesn't break strictness with strict fields #24, don't remove DeriveFunctor even when only on a newtype #22, turn off UnboxedTuples by default #21, strip /* C style */ comments #635 and #18, require cpphs-1.18.1 Switch to CmdArgs for command line parsing Remove -x as a synonym for --cross 1.8.57 #6, add a preview of an API #331, improve parse error locations for literate Haskell 1.8.56 Remove support for GHC 6.12 and below #317, tone down the void hint #16, match not . not (and reverse . reverse etc) Suggest <\)> instead of fmap f $ ... Tweak some priorities, make >=> a warn and void an error #3, make top of the file ANN pragmas work #10, add a suggestion to use unlines #11, add a few hints about characters #8, add CHANGES.txt to the Cabal package 1.8.55 #627, fix the UnboxedTuples extension warning 1.8.54 Fix a bug when suggesting const 1.8.53 Fix some corner cases when suggesting foldr etc. #517, don't introduce new free variables in a replacement 1.8.52 #2, Generic is not newtype derivable 1.8.51 Upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.14 1.8.50 Eliminate upper bounds on all dependencies #617, fix up notIn to take account of Template Haskell variables #573, suggest removing various deriving language extensions 1.8.49 Remove ^^ ==> ** hint Remove a duplicate sqrt hint Ensure that --test failures throws an error Fix up the copyright year in --help 1.8.48 Brackets at the root of annotations are fine Reduce a few more lambda expressions 1.8.47 #613, compatibility with base-4.7 1.8.46 Remove incorrect isPrefixOf hints #586, add span/break/takeWhile/dropWhile hints #588, add sort/reverse hints #601, add replicate/map/repeat hints Add a hint about reverse/reverse Add side as an alias for _ Add hint as an alias for error 1.8.45 #600, hints for unnecessary lazy annotations 1.8.44 #598, warn on unnecessary bang patterns 1.8.43 Change some hint error/warning levels 1.8.42 Allow cpphs-1.16 1.8.41 #586, add a rule for takeWhile/dropWhile ==> span #522, add hints for the state monad #499, fix up the test suite Fix the side conditions for the isPrefixOf hint Add hints about take/drop on non positive numbers Add isNat/isPos/isNeg/isNegPos as notes Make the notes a structured type Add --proof feature Retire the Prelude.catch hint Additional boolean equality hints 1.8.40 #585, lots of additional list based hints 1.8.39 #582, don't suggest renaming with trailingHashes# 1.8.38 #578, treat _ bindings differently in lambdas 1.8.37 #575, allow cpphs-1.15 1.8.36 Make --with imply no default Hint files 1.8.35 #567, avoid duplicate hints around (.) hints 1.8.34 Switch license from GPL to BSD3 1.8.33 Lots more hints on laziness, foldable and a few others Use mapM_ etc in more situations, when using explicit >>= 1.8.32 Add notes about how to deal with imported fixites Add a --with flag for passing settings on the command line #563, make sure TypeSig hints get the right function name Update the copyright year to 2012 #564, allow brackets and type signatures on annotations Add a note that about using !! if the index is negative 1.8.31 Avoid incomplete patterns when reading ANN pragmas #555, top-level expressions require TemplateHaskell 1.8.30 Add elemIndex/elemIndices hints Allow cpphs-1.14 #551, allow case_ as a name with an underscore 1.8.29 Allow hscolor-1.20.* #574, add a hint to for mapM/zip ==> zipWithM 1.8.28 Fix a bug, >=> hint was missing check about removal of free var 1.8.27 Allow haskell-src-exts-1.13.* 1.8.26 Allow haskell-src-exts-1.12.* Don't suggest redundant brackets when turning ++ into : Add hints suggesting >=> and <=< 1.8.25 Update the copyright year in the Cabal file Allow transformers-0.3.* 1.8.24 #531, Make hlint.ghci well formed again 1.8.23 Add hints for redundant seq/evaluate using isWHNF #526, don't hint for return $! (x :: Int) 1.8.22 Add hint for $! where the RHS is not a variable 1.8.21 #508, add lots of hints from the base library #317, add hints for a >> return () to void Add a fromMaybe/fmap ==> maybe hint #304, don't backet tuple sections Add foldl (++) [] ==> concat #512, detect unnecessary case construct When finding hints, don't abort on a parse error #507, add exitSuccess hint #505, suggest record patterns 1.8.20 #500, make sure eta reduction has position information 1.8.19 #498, eta reduce even if there is a where block #497, don't produce an incorrect lambda when suggesting flip 1.8.18 #438, use Foo.Bar to mean Foo/Bar.hs Add a --path command line option to say where files live #441, avoid bad matches due to automatically eta reducing rules #489, import Foo as Foo is redundant #481, suggest liftM instead of fmap when using the Monad laws 1.8.17 #479, allow - as the file to specify using stdin 1.8.16 #478, allow cpphs-1.13.1 Never suggest view patterns (they aren't sufficiently better) Don't suggest use of Data.Ord.comparing, using on is better Only suggest elem/notElem on 3 or more items 1.8.15 Add --cpp-ansi to turn on ANSI compat in cpphs 1.8.14 #455, GHC 7.2 compatibility Add lots of hints from Lennart Augustsson 1.8.13 #302, add a backup fixity analysis, if the HSE one fails Fix x /= y || x /= z ==> x notElem [y,z], should be && 1.8.12 Allow cpphs-1.12 1.8.11 #440, suggest removing redundant brackets under do #439, don't add redundant brackets under do 1.8.10 Upgrade to hscolour-1.19 1.8.9 #436, add a hint about mapMaybe/map Upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.11.1 Add a --cross flag, to detect hints between multiple modules #428, don't suggest using String in an instance head 1.8.8 #384, suggest collapsing multiple imports/exports #374, don't suggest the removal of necessary brackets #337, suggest Control.Exception.catch instead of Prelude.catch #412, add hints based on Control.Exception #378, suggest removing fromInteger/fromIntegral on literals #369, add notes to a few hints about possible pitfalls #409, fix a few cases where definitions suggested themselves #410, Support test* as ignored items in settings files #414, add isLit* pattern, and hint about ^^ ==> ** #420, make the suggestion to use let a warning #408, rework the when/unless hints, don't suggest on itself Add duplicate detector, for copy/pasted code #285, don't show duplicate filepath separators If the user enters directories containing no files then say Make suggesting curry/uncurry a warning instead of an error 1.8.7 Relax the transformers dependency, works with 0.0.* and 0.1.* 1.8.6 Export suggestionSeverity/Severity from the API Allow hint imports with "hlint", as well as the existing "hint" 1.8.5 Update the copyright year to 2011 #400, support more encoding strings, give useful errors #401, rename the report template to report_template.html Replace filter f x /= [] with any f x, and 2 more similar 1.8.4 #308, allow haskell-src-exts-1.10.1, which parses Unicode better import qualified Char ==> import qualified Data.Char as Char #393, fix suggestion for import IO, requires more than System.IO #376, note that RecordWildCards implies DisambiguateRecordFields 1.8.3 Allow uniplate-1.6 Switch from mtl to transformers #373, require haskell-src-exts-1.9.6 Add a type signature for GHC 7 Suggest [x | x <- xs] ==> xs, if x is a variable 1.8.2 #371, foo (\x -> y :: Int -> Int) is not a redundant bracket Add a hint to use just equality rather than isJust/fromJust 1.8.1 Massive speed up for files with many naming hints #361, keep module names when suggesting infix Add support for wildcard matching on module names #357, don't camel case suggest on FOO_A #370, fix building with GHC 6.10.4 #313, upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.9.4 Workaround for #358, disable empty where hints #355, make "--ignore=Parse error" work Add --cpp-simple to run a simple CPP to strip lines begining # Add bracketing information if the parent is a case Suggest intercalate 1.8 Make --test --hint=file typecheck a file for valid hints #347, Suggest use of otherwise, instead of True, in pattern guards Add hints about redundant where statements Suggest removal of redundant guards Make hints about guards work on patterns/infix matches/case alts Make finding guards look a child functions Correctly collapse functions and lambdas using the same patterns Suggest promoting patterns bound to lambdas to functions Allow collapsing lambdas sharing pattern variables correctly #344, only give one warning for multiple collapsable lambdas #300, substantially improve module name resolution with imports BREAKING: imports in hint files require import "hint" HintFile #335, redundant id should only generate one warning Add a hint for using map (f &&& g) #328, for foo'bar suggest the naming fooBar #323, detect redundant brackets in field declarations #321, force the whole file before displaying a parse error Make --find more robust, fixes a potential parse error 1.7.3 Upgrade to hscolour-1.17 1.7.2 #318, match rules by expanding out (.) #319, don't remove lambdas on the right of infix operators 1.7.1 Add a --quiet flag, to supress stdout (mainly for API users) 1.7 Add support for HLint.Builtin.All Fix crash on (\x -> x) Make the library correctly honour the data directory Improve the manual, mainly language changes and hyperlinking Fix a bug in ListRec, could have recursive in the result #315, spot list rec hints through $ and let Add hints based on (f \() ==> f, and change in ListRec hints Changes to the lambda suggestions, now gives a few more hints Don't suggest importing modules in old-locale/old-time Make the API return the suggestions, rather than just the count #278, add -XNoCpp to disable the C preprocessor #279, add -XExt/-XNoExt to choose extensions Remove some redundant brackets in type replacements #286, remove redundant brackets in match Additional bracket removal, application under sections #299, rework hints to use flip (suggest infix in some cases) Add some fromMaybe hints Fix bug where hints didn't always get names #306, make --find use the hints if there are files specified Upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.9 #303, allow fixities to be specified in hint files 1.6.21 #287, warn about Haskell 98 imports #297, add a hint to use mplus #288, detect redundant brackets under a lambda #302, remove error about ambiguous fixities #281, enhance the redundant monad return warnings #293, eliminate _noParen_ from the result #284, eliminate ViewPatterns from FindHints, hits compiler bug #283, don't suggest removal of RecordWildCards Add some hints about concat and (++) #273, require haskell-src-exts >= 1.8.2 1.6.20 #275, add more acknowledgements (still very incomplete) #254, remove the foldr1/map hint Compress nested lambdas, \x -> \y -> ... ==> \x y -> ... Fix minor bug on \x -> \x -> foo x x #274, add redundant bracket inside record update/construct #272, don't mess up creating sections from qualified names Add some hints to suggest elem Add Paths_hlint to the .cabal file, or the library doesn't link #271, rewrite the match engine in terms of SYB 1.6.19 #251, add automatic definition hunting with --find #268, rewrite the (.) expansion in hints to fix various bugs #269, replacing a case with an if should generate one hint Document the ANN pragmas Require haskell-src-exts-1.8.1 1.6.18 Remove a hint replacing do x <- foo; bar x with foo >>= bar #263, support CPP files more fully Upgrade to hscolour-1.16 Upgrade to cpphs-1.11 1.6.17 Force cpphs-1.10, since 1.11 breaks the interface More hints from the Data.Maybe module #262, add support for the TupleSections extension #264, upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.8.*, fixes QuasiQuote pos Upgrade to cpphs 1.10 #266, don't match hints that appear to be the definitions #248, tone down the eta reduction hints Add support for WARNING pragma's to reclassify hints Support ignoring hints on types Give better error messages on incorrect settings files Add temporary haskell-src-exts 1.5/1.6 compatibility #327, add hints to use expressions infix #240, if a then True else False no longer suggests a || False Upgrade to haskell-src-exts-1.7.* #236, support changing the text encoding with --encoding/--utf8 #260, generate nicer lambdas for ((\)) . f) Add the hint (($) . f) ==> (f $) 1.6.16 Further performance enhancements (for details see my blog) Update to uniplate 1.5.* (fixes performance bug) Improve speed based on profiling (roughly twice as fast) #245, add hints for excess brackets in types and patterns Make 100% redundant brackets an error Fix bug where qualified names did not match Remove dependency on SYB #234, allow TH top-level splices for ignore #110, add tests for ignoring commands 1.6.15 Upgrade to uniplate 1.4.* (fixes performance bug) #192, make HLint into a fairly basic library Add --datadir to allow running with a different data directory #254, eliminate foldl/map fusion rules (which were untrue) Fix a few typos in the hint rules Upgrade to uniplate 1.3.* Upgrade to haskell-src-exts 1.6.* Add a .ghci file snippet #247, Fix bug matching expressions containing position info 1.6.14 Upgrade to haskell-src-exts 1.5.* 1.6.13 #246, redundant brackets in [(...)] Add fold/map fusion hints Don't suggest namings that are already used in the module #239, Add suggestions of and/or on foldl Add --extension flag, to find files not named .hs/.lhs Only activate the builtin hints when they are imported Fix matching bug, said "Use flip" on "\v -> f v . g" Suggest changing some pattern guards to view patterns 1.6.12 Fix a bug with ignored hints being written to reports Upgrade to haskell-src-exts 1.3.* #228, suggest let instead of <- return in do statements #229, suggest comparing Qualify all non-Prelude function suggestions #225, Add redundant flip hint #226, Add ((+) x) ==> (x +) #223, TemplateHaskell may allow other extensions via code Fix incorrect suggestion on do x <- f ; g x x A few small additional hints (use flip, redundant id) 1.6.11 Don't perform type eta reduction 1.6.10 Fix bug, eta reduction on chained infix operators, i.e. x#y#z 1.6.9 #217, don't suggest eta reduction on - or + Fix bug, PatternGuards under case alternatives were ignored 1.6.8 #213, upgrade to cpphs 1.9 Add suggestion to replace lambda with operator sections Fix bug, ''Name decided TemplateHaskell was unnecessary HPC statistics, and increase in test coverage Fix bug, import A as Y; import A gave import A, missing the as Y Fix bug, type Foo a = Bar a a incorrectly suggested eta reduce 1.6.7 NOTE: #213 has not been fixed, cpphs can cause hangs Add threaded flag to Cabal to disable -threaded mode #212, fix crash Fix bug, incorrectly decided TemplateHaskell was unnecessary 1.6.6 Upgrade to hscolour 1.15 Add a hint for using unless #211, add hints for unused extensions #188, add pragma hints Add a few additional hints (Functor laws) #137, add cpphs support #189, give hints for redundant imports Upgrade to haskell-src-exts 1.1.* 1.6.5 #206, better presentation of parse errors #208, give the correct precedence to ==> in source files 1.6.4 Start of changelog