From: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml clone detector
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:56:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9F2264.7000909@mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090903111944.6479d156.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Maybe it would help if you explained what a "clone detector"
> is.
>
A "clone" is software-engineering speak for "duplicated code". Exactly
what qualifies as 'duplicated code' and how to efficiently find such
(without too many false positives nor false negatives) is still fairly
active research. This is a huge issue in languages without decent
abstraction features, and less so otherwise (or so it seems).
Jacques
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 0:21 Kihong Heo
2009-09-03 1:19 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-03 1:56 ` Jacques Carette [this message]
2009-09-03 3:14 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-03 5:38 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-09-03 15:06 ` Nicolas barnier
2009-09-03 23:13 ` John Clements
2009-09-04 11:30 ` Stéphane Glondu
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