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feat: Exception best practices

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Description

Should highlight violations when:

  • NRE or StackoverflowException or OutOfMemoryException is thrown (only the runtime should throw this).
  • Exception's Message or StackTrace proerties are used (they would miss exception type, recommend ex.ToString() instead).
  • If raise is not inside a try/with block, maybe recommend using Result type? (this should probably be a separate rule; or maybe each of the items in this list should be a different rule)

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Use the issue text as the starting point and review how FSharpLint currently defines and tests lint rules. Decide whether the listed exception checks belong in separate rules, then define the violation cases and expected diagnostics. Done means the selected exception-pattern violations are detected with tests covering the agreed scope.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
fsharp
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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