rust-lang/rust-clippy

detect #[allow(warnings)] and issue an unsilenceable warning

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#1,648 opened on Mar 31, 2017

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Description

because if you use clippy, you opt in to warnings, why would you opt out again?

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Explore Clippy's lint registration mechanism and how it handles the `allow` attribute to implement a lint that warns when `#[allow(warnings)]` is used.
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