Many additional rules have been added by eXept, some of which cover prossible problems specific to the ST/X dialect of Smalltalk.
These checks are bundled into so called "rule sets", which can be created, maintained and customized by the user for personal (or company wide) preferences.
This settings dialog allows for the creation and maintenance of private rule sets. These are offered in the browser's lint menu.
There are a number of questionable rules, which are either too picky (and not all programmer teams accept them) or which are not applicable to all Smalltalk dialects. You should choose a reasonable set, to both avoid overlooking common bugs, and to not anger the programmers by constantly marking perfectly good code. The later being just as bad, as sooner or later, the programmer will completely ignore any such hints, if he starts to get frustrated over non-issues.
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