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State-of-the-Art Software Plagiarism & Collusion Detection
https://jplag.github.io/JPlag/
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Java Language Frontend: J_CONSTR_BEGIN, J_CONSTR_END and J_VOID never used #1865

Open euberdeveloper opened 2 months ago

euberdeveloper commented 2 months ago

It can be seen from the code that these token types for Java are never used:

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euberdeveloper commented 2 months ago

The same can be said for other tokens

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tsaglam commented 2 months ago

Yes, the unused tokens and the comments after each line are very much legacy. Some of them should not be used during tokenization as they decrease detection quality by enlarging the attack surface. For others, it is unclear if they have an impact at all (if used).