From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-04-17, bill  wrote:   
   > On 4/17/2025 8:38 AM, Arne Vajhøj 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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