Automattic / Automattic/harper
"Notwithstanding" can be a legit preposition but is always flagged as a discourse marker
Open
bug
false-positive
harper-core
linting
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 15.4k
- Forks
- 627
- Avg merge
- 1d 15h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 106
Description
I'm not sure how easy this will be to disambiguate. Maybe `DiscourseMarkers` needs a param/enum to indicate its certainly and hedge in its `message` when it can't disambiguate.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported flag for “notwithstanding” and inspect the DiscourseMarkers entry or implementation that classifies it. Determine how legitimate prepositional uses can be distinguished, then verify that those uses are no longer always flagged and that uncertain cases communicate appropriate certainty or hedging.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100