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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:31:52 -0700
Subject: Re: pylint, was Re: pygame - importing GL - very bad...
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, same applies to most linters I think. You end up disagreeing
> with the author on half the points. Oh well. Doesn't make the tool
> useless, just means you need to fiddle with it to get it how you want
> it.

It's a lot less work to disable a check than to implement a desired
check that is missing, so to me it's better that a linter do too much
by default than not enough.