Linting is the process of running a program that will analyse code for potential errors. See lint on wikipedia: lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage ... More @Wikipedia
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