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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:48:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-17, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/2025 8:38 AM, Arne Vajh�j wrote:
>> On 4/17/2025 8:21 AM, bill wrote:
>>> On 4/16/2025 9:29 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>> Most modern code-counting tools _are_ language aware.� Whether
>>>> they do a better or worse job for each given language may be a
>>>> matter of debate, but most at least recognize different
>>>> languages and have some knowledge of their semantics.
>>>>
>>> I wonder how they would handle BASIC?� :-)
>>>
>>> 10 FOR X = 1 TO 10
>>> 20 PRINT X
>>> 30 NEXT X
>>>
>>> 10 FOR X = 1 TO 10:PRINT X:NEXT X
>>>
>>> Is the snippet above one line of code or three?
>> 
>> Given that they count non-blank non-comment lines then ...
>> 
>
> Yes, but which is it?
> Would it be three in one case and one in the other even though it is the
> exact same snippet?
>

Number of statements, not number of lines. That makes it 3 statements
following my reasoning or 2 with Arne's reasoning. Either way, it's
still the exact same number of statements in both cases.

Simon.

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