Comments on: Bug cluster phenomenon

By: Daryl Fortney

Daryl Fortney — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:17:19 +0000

I have found that using automatic source code style formatters (ctl + shift + f in eclipse) helps out here. no need to worry about style while writing and then just hit that at the end and everything gets cleaned up. a second benefit is people actually think i am careful about my coding

By: Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:58:00 +0000

May be it’s just me, but I find great difficulty in remembering regular expression syntax. The problem is that I just don’t use them often enough.

By: Uhmmmm

Uhmmmm — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:52:00 +0000

A regexp to exclude comments would look something like:[^*/]/[^*/]A quick grep of some sourcecode I have lying around shows that it works, but it also catches a few file paths (#include directives) and some text in comments. But the vast majority of what it finds is division.Granted, it’s more complex than searching for ” / ” and ” /= “, but not significantly so if you know even basic regular expressions.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:06:00 +0000

nice advice

By: Niall Murphy

Niall Murphy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:30:00 +0000

Interesting point about being able to search for the operators. Similarly, I think the biggest advantage of new-style C++ casts is that they contain a unique string that can easily be searched (e.g. static_cast). In C style casting, if I decided to investigate all of the casts to unsigned int I would try to search for(unsigned int)(x)but it would be hard to be sure of the spacing at the round braces will match and I might miss a related one like(const unsigned int)For all the fancy browsing tools out there, a simple text search is often the best way to track down certain operations, and finding casts by searching for “_cast” or “static_cast” is handy, because like the divisions you describe, casts are often the cause of bugs and require a second look.

By: Paul N. Leroux

Paul N. Leroux — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Hi Nigel. Your advice reminds me of an old proofreader’s trick: When you find one typoe, look for another neerby. - Paul