Alan,
My own experience, based on recent investigation with a grad student to compile more evidence for his claims regarding complexity metrics (in this case Harrison's entropy-based measure rather than McCabe) was that the closer we looked at the measure
I think that information content is the way to go. Of course there are a few major problems such as different people seeing different information contents in the same code and just because the information is there does not mean that readers will extract it (they might be tired or overloaded). -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:[email protected] Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk
