From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/17/2025 1:48 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   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.   
      
   Hard to have a discussion when the goalposts keep moving.   
      
   bill   
      
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