From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com

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?

There are lies, damn lies and statistics.

bill

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