Last night I've done a bit of documentation work on cyclomatic
complexity. From this work it looks like the tools that do this
static analysis are only using the AST (e.g the CC is computed
for a each single function, and function calls inside the graph
are considered as "connected componenents" with a constant weight
of 1.
The problems I see with D are
- the metaprogramming features. (clearly unsolvable)
- conditional compilation: "version()" and "static if" are hardly
handlable at the AST level, meaning that a bit of semantic is
necessary to compute the real CC.
- functional programming, CTFE.
So what the CC for ?
- DScanner could implement it (or also the maintainability index)
to check existing code-bases.
- As a guard, i.e when you're inspired and that you write 2000
SLOC in the day.
So CC possible or not in D (at the AST level) ?
