Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base

On 2025-04-17, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/17/2025 1:48 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

 
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.
 

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But I thought we were talking LoC - Lines of Code and the ability of
a machine to make that determination in order to provide accurate
statistical information.
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We are, but you are counting physical lines of code and I am counting
the actual number of statements (which is more robust against different
coding styles). I've just looked around for a write-up explaining the
various approaches and the Wikipedia one looks pretty good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code

Simon.

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