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But that would not count ifs and fors and whiles. And sometimes there's significant work done there.
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@mrmoinn True, for loops usually have 3 declaration parts, separated by semicolons. What I was thinking was more on the test condition. On ifs in particular, sometimes you have multiple expressions there, and a few of them can be quite complicated. And it's no semicolons there.
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@mrmoinn LoL, haven't thought that far. Regarding code that's like all the statements in a single line, eventually also "glued" together by gimmicks like comma or !! in Javascript - these cases I'd say they can simply be ignored. Just have a beautify/code formatting tool do its thing and count the lines of the result. While we're here, any binary operator (binary as in takes two operands) should be counted as a semicolon. Yeah, I agree that attributes/decorators/whatever should also count. This thing is hard! Maybe we should just count the abstract syntax tree size and be done with it, lol.
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