Re: Mining Code Repositories for Language Design

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
> Such language design decisions based on quantitative data is what I
> had in mind when writing [1].
>
> [1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-10/msg00449.html

That is a useful check to add to a battery of code-quality 'lint'
tests.  Using escapes like this is hard to see visually.

'function(s,res)\n\t\local %s = s:match(%q)\n'

(thanks for catching that one in Penlight)

steve d.