Error checking doesn't catch using <, > instead of the correct -lt, -gt in an if statement

ant-druha / intellij-powershell

Adds PowerShell language support to IntelliJ-based IDEs.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10249-powershell

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Error checking doesn't catch using <, > instead of the correct -lt, -gt in an if statement #266

Closed joshuaking-madtech closed 2 months ago

joshuaking-madtech commented 3 months ago

When an conditional mistakenly uses the <, > instead of the PowerShell -lt -gt compare operators, subsequent suggestions/code completion break but the error isn't highlighted.

ForNeVeR commented 3 months ago

Could you please show some examples of contexts when the plugin gets it wrong?

It could be that our (very relaxed) grammar misses the errors, while PSES-powered completion gets it right.

In certain cases, > may be valid in same places where -gt is, while having totally different meanings. Say,

 if (echo 12 > $null) { echo 1 } else { echo 2 }

is a perfectly valid syntactic construct, even if a bit meaningless.

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