From: hadley wickham <h.wickham@...>
Date: 2007-08-27T05:43:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] flog 1.1.0 Released

On 8/25/07, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 07:52 , Sam Pierson wrote:
>
> > To normalize the "final score" shouldn't it be divided by the
> > number of
> > lines of code to indicate an overall complexity metric?
>
> the flog total score is an overall complexity metric.
>
> dividing.by.loc.is.bad ==
>
> dividing.
> by.
> loc.
> is.
> bad
>

I don't think that invalidates the usefulness of an complexity per LOC
metric.  It's measuring something a little different, which still
might be useful.  Clearly the two sides of the statement have equal
complexity, but the RHS has lower complexity per LOC.

Hadley
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