The code vocabulary frequency may be too low
Why you should care
Understanding what a piece of code is supposed to do relies on many aspects like documentation, good naming conventions, etc. The vocabulary frequency can also help developers to understand and maintain the code more easily. Ensuring your software has a well-balanced number of different keywords that a programming language offers tends to reduce the time necessary for a developer to handle it efficiently – especially if he’s not the primary code author.
Searched Pattern
This code insight is a metric that calculate the ratio between the number of distinct words and the total number of word.
Are considered as words :
- the identifiers
- the keywords
- the following operators : …, <<= >>= != %= &= *= = -= /= = |= && || + — -> << <= == >= >> ! % & * + , – . / < = > ? ^ | { ;
- : except in a case pattern
- ( and [ except when following an indentifier or a keyword
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halstead_complexity_measures
http://www.virtualmachinery.com/sidebar2.htm
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