From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 4/17/2025 9:53 AM, 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?

There are 3 and 1 non-blank non-comment lines in the two snippets.

> There are lies, damn lies and statistics.

:-)

Arne

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