nushell / nushell/vscode-nushell-lang
Chained assignment should be an error/warning
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- Dominant language
- Nushell
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- 153
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- 31
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Description
At the moment, we can write
$env.foo = $env.bar = "baz"
and even
let $foo = let $bar = "baz"
without any warning, but the resulting values are
$env.foo == null
$env.bar == "baz"
which is most likely not what was expected.
I think this should be reported as a warning (or even an error if there are no actual use cases for this syntax).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Begin with the chained-assignment examples in the issue and determine whether this VS Code extension can report the Nushell behavior as a warning or error. Clarify whether the syntax has valid use cases, then define the diagnostic behavior and its completion criteria before locating the relevant extension entry point.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100