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Rule Request: no_constant_condition

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Description

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  1. Why should this rule be added? Share links to existing discussion about what
    the community thinks about this.

Conditional branches where the condition constantly evaluates to true or false are useless because only one branch is executed always or never.

  1. Provide several examples of what would and wouldn't trigger violations.

Violating Examples

if true {
    print("foo")
}

if false {
    print("foo")
}

if x && false {
    print("foo")
}

if x || true {
    print("foo")
}

switch "b" {
case "a":
    print("foo")
case "c":
    print("bar")
default:
    break
}

Non-Violating Examples

if x {
    print("foo")
}

switch x {
case "a":
    print("foo")
case "c":
    print("bar")
default:
    break
}
  1. Should the rule be configurable, if so what parameters should be configurable?

This rule doesn’t need to be configurable.

  1. Should the rule be opt-in or enabled by default? Why?
    See README.md for guidelines on when to mark a rule as opt-in.

I think this rule would be a good candidate for the default rules since it points out a possible programming error.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  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

Read README.md’s opt-in-rules guidance first, then use the Swift examples in the issue as the behavior specification. Done means the rule detects each listed constant-condition violation, leaves the non-violating examples unchanged, and requires no configuration.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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