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From: jameson@jade.uucp (Kevin Jameson)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Counting semicolons (was: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program)
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.231326.972@jade.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 91 23:13:26 GMT
Organization: Jade Simulations International, Inc.
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If the author figured that something (semicolons, brackets, partial boolean 
expressions, etc) was worth putting on a line by itself when the code was 
written, wouldn't it be reasonable to count it as a distinct line of code?

Surely something like this

if ((some-long-condition1
     && some-other-long-condition2)
     || third condition) {
        ...;
        ...;
}   

should count as more lines of code than something like this:

if (debug)
   ...;