From: Michael Campbell Date: 2003-08-21T05:01:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Punctuation as noise > > I have noticed an odd effect already, though. The > > symbol/alpha ratio is fairly low (1-2) for smaller > > programs and larger (4-6) for larger programs. I've > > tried it on sources ranging from 10 lines to 2000 > > lines. One thing I think I've noticed however is that the s:n code you posted takes into account comments as "code". For heavily commented source, this might skew the s:n ratio, no?