Re: Localized Variable Declaration

["martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>]

"Mark Johnson" <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com> wrote in message
news:3CF79BFF.B3CD0E9F@raytheon.com...
> > now you have 3 lines not 1! ;-)
> >
> [I noticed the smiley, but really...] If you really care that this
> counts as three lines of code instead of one you need to get a better
> line of code counter. It doesn't even have to be very exotic - one of
> the simplest (and best?) ones I have seen for C merely counts lines that
> have more than two non comment, non-white space characters in it. It is
> about a page of code (mostly to count lines by function) and would still
> count this example as one line. For Ada, you could change that from two
> characters to two tokens (so you ignore null;) to get the same effect.
>
> [and no - I don't want to get into a flame war about how to count lines
> (or statements) of code :-)]

:-)

Just so long as the rules are equivalent for each language... (i.e. if you
count
'begin' etc in Ada, you have to count '{' in C - the are both there for the
same
reason)