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   Simon Clubley to bill   
   Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base   
   17 Apr 25 18:05:52   
   
   From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-04-17, bill  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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   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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