Helping to find the usefulness of a proposal

[Stephen Colebourne]

I think that as a first step, any info on the most likely Coins would be 
beneficial. I'd suggest publishing the script alongside the results.

Stephen


brucechapman at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Good idea,
> 
> Should they each be evaluated against the same corpus and what would be a
> suitable corpus?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_linguistics
> 
> Bruce
> 
> Quoting Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>:
> 
>> All,
>> One possible way I'd like to suggest that the coin evaluation could be
>> helped would be to write a script to find out how frequently the
>> specific issue comes up in real code.
>>
>> It should be possible to devise, write and run a script to find the
>> number of LOCs affected by many of the proposals. For example:
>>
>> - strings in switch (find if else on constant strings)
>> - multi-catch (find duplicate catch blocks)
>> - elvis operator (find ternary and if else defaulting)
>> - for each where the iterator remove can be accessed (% of loops that
>> access iterator)
>> - for each where index is needed (% of loops that use int looping)
>> - method and field literals
>> - byte and short literals
>> and probably many others (I've just listed some proposals I remember)
>>
>> Ideally, any script would be ASM/BCEL based, but grep style might work
>> too.
>>
>> I mention all this because I don't have the spare time to write such a
>> script, but if you do, then I'm sure we'd all like to run it and
>> discuss the results ;-)
>>
>> Stephen
>>  
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