measure blank and comment lines

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#15 measure blank and comment lines

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Owner: Frank Sauer

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Updated: 2003-06-04

Created: 2003-06-04

Creator: Frank Sauer

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measure blank and comment lines and the ratio of real
statement lines vs. total lines

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James Hu - 2003-11-13

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Agree with Frank, I think this is very useful too.

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Daniel Serodio - 2003-12-09

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Actually, I think LOC is a pretty meaningless metric, since
coding style can affect it _a_lot_, eg, putting opening braces
in a line by itself, breaking long lines, etc.

NCSS (Non-Comment Source Statements) is a much more
useful metric (roughly the same as counting '{' and ';'). See
http://www.kclee.com/clemens/java/javancss/ for more
information.

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2003-12-17

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It would be better to allow the user to specify different
preferrences when counting LOC. For example, count only
NCSS, or count all lines including/excluding blank
lines/comments/variable declarations/importing statements...
Thanks!

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Frank Sauer - 2003-12-17

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I like that approach from a user's standpoint, but the
downside is that it becomes hard to compare metrics for
different code bases generated by different users with
different settings. If some measure one way and others
another way you're comparing apples and oranges. Now at
least it's always measured the same way, good or bad.

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