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# HLint configuration file
# https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint
# Run `hlint --default` to see the example configuration file.
##########################
# WARNING: These need to be synced with the default-extensions field
# in the cabal file.
- arguments: [-XGHC2021, -XOverloadedRecordDot]
# Ignore some builtin hints
# often functions are more readable with explicit arguments
- ignore: { name: Eta reduce }
# these redundancy warnings are just completely irrelevant
- ignore: { name: Redundant bracket }
- ignore: { name: Move brackets to avoid $ }
- ignore: { name: Redundant $ }
- ignore: { name: Redundant do }
- ignore: { name: Redundant multi-way if }
# allow case-matching on bool, because why not
- ignore: { name: Use if }
# hlint cannot distinguish actual newtypes from data types
# that accidentally have only one field
# (but might have more in the future).
# Since it’s a mostly irrelevant runtime optimization, we don’t care.
- ignore: { name: Use newtype instead of data }
# these lead to harder-to-read/more implicit code
- ignore: { name: Use fmap }
- ignore: { name: Use <$> }
- ignore: { name: Use tuple-section }
- ignore: { name: Use forM_ }
- ignore: { name: Functor law }
# fst and snd are usually a code smell and should be explicit matches, _naming the ignored side.
- ignore: { name: Use fst }
- ignore: { name: Use snd }
- ignore: { name: Use fromMaybe }
- ignore: { name: Use const }
- ignore: { name: Replace case with maybe }
- ignore: { name: Replace case with fromMaybe }
- ignore: { name: Avoid lambda }
- ignore: { name: Avoid lambda using `infix` }
- ignore: { name: Use curry }
- ignore: { name: Use uncurry }
- ignore: { name: Use first }
- ignore: { name: Redundant first }
- ignore: { name: Use second }
- ignore: { name: Use bimap }
# just use `not x`
- ignore: { name: Use unless }
- ignore: { name: Redundant <&> }
# list comprehensions are a seldomly used part of the Haskell language
# and they introduce syntactic overhead that is usually not worth the conciseness
- ignore: { name: Use list comprehension }
# Seems to be buggy in cases
- ignore: { name: Use section }
# multiple maps in a row are usually used for clarity,
# and the compiler will optimize them away, thank you very much.
- ignore: { name: Use map once }
- ignore: { name: Fuse foldr/map }
- ignore: { name: Fuse traverse/map }
- ignore: { name: Fuse traverse_/map }
- ignore: { name: Fuse traverse/<$> }
# this is silly, why would I use a special function if I can just (heh) `== Nothing`
- ignore: { name: Use isNothing }
# The duplication heuristic is not very smart
# and more annoying than helpful.
# see https://github.com/ndmitchell/hlint/issues/1009
- ignore: { name: Reduce duplication }
# Stops the pattern match trick
- ignore: { name: Use record patterns }
- ignore: { name: Use null }
- ignore: { name: Use uncurry }
# we don’t want void, see below
- ignore: { name: Use void }
- functions:
# disallow Enum instance functions, they are partial
- name: Prelude.succ
within: [Relude.Extra.Enum]
message: "Dangerous, will fail for highest element"
- name: Prelude.pred
within: [Relude.Extra.Enum]
message: "Dangerous, will fail for lowest element"
- name: Prelude.toEnum
within: []
message: "Extremely partial"
- name: Prelude.fromEnum
within: []
message: "Dangerous for most uses"
- name: Prelude.enumFrom
within: []
- name: Prelude.enumFromThen
within: []
- name: Prelude.enumFromThenTo
within: []
- name: Prelude.oundedEnumFrom
within: []
- name: Prelude.boundedEnumFromThen
within: []
- name: Text.Read.readMaybe
within:
# The BSON ObjectId depends on Read for parsing
- Milkmap.Milkmap
- Milkmap.FieldData.Value
message: "`readMaybe` is probably not what you want for parsing values, please use the `FieldParser` module."
# `void` discards its argument and is polymorphic,
# thus making it brittle in the face of code changes.
# (see https://tech.freckle.com/2020/09/23/void-is-a-smell/)
# Use an explicit `_ <- …` instead.
- name: Data.Functor.void
within: []
message: "`void` leads to bugs. Use an explicit `_ <- …` instead"
- name: Data.Foldable.length
within: []
message: "`Data.Foldable.length` is dangerous to use, because it also works on types you wouldn’t expect, like `length (3,4) == 1` and `length (Just 2) == 1`. Use the `length` function for your specific type instead, for example `List.length` or `Map.length`."
- name: Prelude.length
within: [MyPrelude]
message: "`Prelude.length` is dangerous to use, because it also works on types you wouldn’t expect, like `length (3,4) == 1` and `length (Just 2) == 1`. Use the `length` function for your specific type instead, for example `List.length` or `Map.length`."
# Using an explicit lambda with its argument “underscored”
# is more clear in every case.
# e.g. `const True` => `\_request -> True`
# shows the reader that the ignored argument was a request.
- name: Prelude.const
within: []
message: "Replace `const` with an explicit lambda with type annotation for code clarity and type safety, e.g.: `const True` => `\\(_ :: Request) -> True`. If you really don’t want to spell out the type (which might lead to bugs!), you can also use something like `\_request -> True`."
- name: Data.List.nub
within: []
message: "O(n²), use `Data.Containers.ListUtils.nubOrd"
- name: Prelude.maximum
within: []
message: "`maximum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `maximum1`"
- name: Data.List.maximum
within: []
message: "`maximum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `maximum1`"
- name: Prelude.minimum
within: []
message: "`minimum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `minimum1`"
- name: Data.List.minimum
within: []
message: "`minimum` crashes on empty list; use non-empty lists and `minimum1`"
- name: Data.Foldable.maximum
within: []
message: "`maximum` crashes on empty foldable stucture; use Foldable1 and `maximum1`."
- name: Data.Foldable.minimum
within: []
message: "`minimum` crashes on empty foldable stucture; use Foldable1 and `minimum1`."
# Using prelude functions instead of stdlib functions
- name: "Data.Text.Encoding.encodeUtf8"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `textToBytesUtf8`"
- name: "Data.Text.Lazy.Encoding.encodeUtf8"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `textToBytesUtf8Lazy`"
- name: "Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8'"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `bytesToTextUtf8`"
- name: "Data.Text.Encoding.Lazy.decodeUtf8'"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `bytesToTextUtf8Lazy`"
- name: "Data.Text.Encoding.decodeUtf8"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Either check for errors with `bytesToTextUtf8`, decode leniently with unicode replacement characters with `bytesToTextUtf8Lenient` or use the crashing version `bytesToTextUtf8Unsafe` (discouraged)."
- name: "Data.Text.Encoding.Lazy.decodeUtf8"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Either check for errors with `bytesToTextUtf8Lazy`, decode leniently with unicode replacement characters with `bytesToTextUtf8LenientLazy` or use the crashing version `bytesToTextUtf8UnsafeLazy` (discouraged)."
- name: "Data.Text.Lazy.toStrict"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `toStrict`"
- name: "Data.Text.Lazy.fromStrict"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `toLazy`"
- name: "Data.ByteString.Lazy.toStrict"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `toStrictBytes`"
- name: "Data.ByteString.Lazy.fromStrict"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `toLazyBytes`"
- name: "Data.Text.unpack"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `textToString`"
- name: "Data.Text.pack"
within: ["MyPrelude"]
message: "Use `stringToText`"
- name: "Data.Maybe.listToMaybe"
within: []
message: |
`listToMaybe`` throws away everything but the first element of a list (it is essentially `safeHead`).
If that is what you want, please use a pattern match like
```
case xs of
[] -> …
(x:_) -> …
```
- name: "Data.List.head"
within: []
message: |
`List.head` fails on an empty list. I didn’t think I have to say this, but please use a pattern match on the list, like:
```
case xs of
[] -> … error handling …
(x:_) -> …
```
Also think about why the rest of the list should be ignored.
- name: "Prelude.head"
within: []
message: |
`List.head` fails on an empty list. I didn’t think I have to say this, but please use a pattern match on the list, like.
```
case xs of
[] -> … error handling …
(x:_) -> …
```
Also think about why the rest of the list should be ignored.
- name: "Data.Maybe.fromJust"
within: []
message: |
`Maybe.fromJust` is obviously partial. Please use a pattern match.
In case you actually want to throw an error on an empty list,
please add an error message, like so:
```
myMaybe & annotate "my error message" & unwrapError
```
If you are in `IO`, use `unwrapIOError` instead,
or throw a monad-specific error.
- name: "Data.Either.fromLeft"
within: []
message: |
`Either.fromLeft` is obviously partial. Please use a pattern match.
- name: "Data.Either.fromRight"
within: []
message: |
`Either.fromRight` is obviously partial. Please use a pattern match.
# Make restricted functions into an error if found
- error: { name: "Avoid restricted function, see comment in .hlint.yaml" }
# Some functions that have (more modern) aliases.
# They are not dangerous per se,
# but we want to make it easier to read our code so we should
# make sure we don’t use too many things that are renames.
- hint:
lhs: "undefined"
rhs: "todo"
note: "`undefined` is a silent error, `todo` will display a warning as long as it exists in the code."
- hint:
lhs: "return"
rhs: "pure"
note: "Use `pure` from `Applicative` instead, it’s the exact same function."
- hint:
lhs: "mapM"
rhs: "traverse"
note: "Use `traverse` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."
- hint:
lhs: "mapM_"
rhs: "traverse_"
note: "Use `traverse_` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."
- hint:
lhs: "forM"
rhs: "for"
note: "Use `for` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."
- hint:
lhs: "forM_"
rhs: "for_"
note: "Use `for_` from `Traversable` instead. It’s the exact same function."
- hint:
lhs: "stringToText (show x)"
rhs: "showToText x"
- hint:
lhs: "Data.Set.toList (Data.Set.fromList x)"
rhs: "List.nubOrd x"
note: "`nubOrd` removes duplicate elements from a list."
- modules:
# Disallowed Modules
- name: Data.Map
within: []
message: "Lazy maps leak space, use `import Data.Map.Strict as Map` instead"
- name: Control.Monad.Writer
within: []
message: "Lazy writers leak space, use `Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.CPS` instead"
- name: Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Lazy
within: []
message: "Lazy writers leak space, use `Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.CPS` instead"
- name: Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.Strict
within: []
message: "Even strict writers leak space, use `Control.Monad.Trans.Writer.CPS` instead"
# Qualified module imports
- { name: Data.Map.Strict, as: Map }
- { name: Data.HashMap.Strict, as: HashMap }
- { name: Data.Set, as: Set }
- { name: Data.ByteString.Char8, as: Char8 }
- { name: Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8, as: Char8.Lazy }
- { name: Data.Text, as: Text }
- { name: Data.Vector, as: Vector }
- { name: Data.Vault.Lazy, as: Vault }
- { name: Data.Aeson, as: Json }
- { name: Data.Aeson.Types, as: Json }
- { name: Data.Aeson.BetterErrors as Json }
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