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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml clone detector
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:14:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090903131453.59a2d2e7.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9F2264.7000909@mcmaster.ca>

Jacques Carette wrote:

> 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).

Thanks for the explanation. 

I can think of two situations where such a clone detector may be useful;
for finding similar chunks of code so that they may be refactored for
software QA management and for detecting plaguarism in student programming
assignments.

I suspect that these two kinds of clone detectors would actually be
quite different.

Cheers,
Erik
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Erik de Castro Lopo
http://www.mega-nerd.com/


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03  3:14 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
2009-09-03  3:14     ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
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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