On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Matisse Enzer wrote:
On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Chris Dolan wrote:
OK, I see. Perhaps I was distracted from your main point by
mention of cyclomatic complexity, which has a rather specific
definition.
Mea culpa.
In the next release I will change the documentation for
Perl::Metrics::Simple to make clear how exactly the complexity
score is calculated, and that it is only an approximation of true
cyclomatic complexity.
Meanwhile, I am open to making the measurement more useful. For
example, should
if ($a eq $b)
or
if ( $a == $b )
be counted as more complex than:
if ( $a )
*shrug* It's really up to you and your user base, as long as you are
consistent. Certainly the former examples require more tests to get
full coverage.
Personally, I use Devel::Cover's concept of complexity implicitly.
Chris
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