From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 31 Jan 93 22:53:32 GMT From: rharwood@east.pima.edu Subject: Re: counting "renames" Message-ID: <1993Jan31.155332.1@east.pima.edu> List-Id: In article <9301290047.AA15582@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>, SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU writes : > I was asked to study a name-brand "Ada Static Code Analyzer" > product. It has been around and evolving nicely for many years. > It counts things and gives reports based on threshold count > values you choose. e.g. it will report how many goto's are used > and even tell you where (several years ago it wouldn't tell you > where). > It doesn't count "renames"! I asked the salesman and he didn't > know why not but he would get back to me. Several weeks later > he called to tell me that it doesn't count renames but he couldn't > tell me why. > Am I missing something? Can anyone guess why they don't count renames? A company I once worked for produced a source code analyzer (not for Ada), and when asked similar questions of the form "Why doesn't XYZ do ?", the VERY honest answer is : "Because nobody ever asked us before!" Why, some programmer would have to first think of the idea himself (the tool was to be a money-maker, and was not designed to do anything but fill a market need), and then [heaven forbid] someone would have to write and TEST the code. I can hear the response in the team meeting now: "Renames? Who would want to count renames?" ----- Ray Harwood |Data Basix |Adjunct Faculty, East Campus, Voice: (602)721-1988 |PO Box 18324 | Pima Community College FAX: (602)721-7240 |Tucson, AZ 85731 |Instructor in Ada and Pascal CompuServe: 76645,1370|AppleLink: DATA.BASIX|Internet: rharwood@east.pima.edu