Jacques Carette wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Maybe it would help if you explained what a "clone detector" > > is. > > > A "clone" is software-engineering speak for "duplicated code". Exactly > what qualifies as 'duplicated code' and how to efficiently find such > (without too many false positives nor false negatives) is still fairly > active research. This is a huge issue in languages without decent > abstraction features, and less so otherwise (or so it seems).
Thanks for the explanation. I can think of two situations where such a clone detector may be useful; for finding similar chunks of code so that they may be refactored for software QA management and for detecting plaguarism in student programming assignments. I suspect that these two kinds of clone detectors would actually be quite different. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
