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terryyin / lizard

A simple code complexity analyser without caring about the C/C++ header files or Java imports, supports most of the popular languages.
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Add a note of known limitations in code processing #150

Closed rakhimov closed 8 years ago

rakhimov commented 8 years ago

This note documents some limitations of Lizard and provides some contract for developers to keep Lizard's code simpler.

terryyin commented 8 years ago

I think Lizard should aim at "no crashes and no dead loops" for incorrect & incomplete code. But doesn't need to provide warning or error message for incorrect & incomplete code. And I should try to achieve "nearly linear correlation" to the completeness of the code. So that potentially lizard can work at the background of an editor in real time.

What do you think?

rakhimov commented 8 years ago

That's an interesting goal I didn't consider. Let me think.

rakhimov commented 8 years ago

I think I went to far requiring the behavior to be undefined. In case of real time processing, I think your idea of soft guarantees on best effort is better. I should also note that "undefined behavior" and Python tool doesn't sound good :)