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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Check for redundancy
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:10:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150624211049.GA14854@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh9pxvuns.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 02:21:03PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The term is not specific to programming: expressing things which have been
> > expressed already.
> 
> Obviously, Drew knows that.  The issue is that if you want to check for
> redundancy in code, it's presumably by doing it with another piece of
> code [...]

To throw an unorthodox idea into the air, one could measure the compression
ratio (e.g. with gzip) and relate it to the compression ratio of "known
good" code (I know, I know... :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-24 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-24  9:29 Check for redundancy Andreas Röhler
2015-06-24 13:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-24 14:55   ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5580.1435157733.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-24 18:21     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-24 21:10       ` tomas [this message]
2015-06-25  3:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-25  7:47           ` tomas
2015-06-26 15:01             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-26 20:25               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-26 22:48                 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-27 12:11                 ` Robert Thorpe
2015-06-27 13:12                   ` tomas
2015-06-27 23:02                     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-28 11:07                       ` tomas
2015-06-28 15:50                         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-28 16:35                           ` Yuri Khan
2015-06-28 20:03                             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-28 21:38                           ` Robert Thorpe
2015-06-28 23:47                             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-02 23:37                               ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-03  3:36                                 ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-03  6:41                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-03 11:48                                     ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-03 12:16                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-03 22:59                                         ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-03  6:09                                 ` tomas
2015-07-03 19:56                                   ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                                 ` <mailman.6215.1435903802.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-03  6:38                                   ` Rusi
2015-07-03  7:54                                     ` tomas
2015-07-03  8:55                                     ` Loris Bennett
2015-06-24 23:31       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-25  2:03       ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-06-25  2:07         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-25  2:53           ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-06-25  3:21             ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5603.1435188769.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-25  7:43         ` Stefan Nobis
2015-06-25  8:52           ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-26 14:51             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-26 14:39           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]           ` <mailman.5719.1435329683.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-27  7:40             ` Stefan Nobis
2015-06-28  2:02               ` Emanuel Berg
2015-06-28  2:40                 ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] <mailman.6209.1435880273.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-03  8:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-03 20:04   ` Emanuel Berg

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