rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
Lint unstable floating point computations
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- Rust
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Description
Something along the lines of Herbie for Haskell, but without the auto-fixing – perhaps we can port the transformations to give (very) good suggestions.
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
Start by reviewing the HerbiePlugin project linked in the issue and comparing its floating-point transformations with rust-clippy's existing lint structure. The issue names no Rust files, tests, or entry points, so the scope and implementation path need to be established first. Done would mean a Rust lint that gives useful floating-point suggestions without auto-fixing.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100