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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ejwa

Refer to lines as "lines" instead of "rows"

Open remram44 opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

The term "row" is very surprising and quite inappropriate for code. It is usually reserved for tables and the like (where columns are equally important), not for text. I'm not sure how this has been translated to other languages, but the English version "row" should probably be replaced.

(provided that it does, indeed refer to line of codes?)

remram44 avatar May 22 '16 22:05 remram44

Hi. True. In many other languages they often mean the same thing. That being said, it is also common to refer to text in ascii files in rows and columns.

I'll keep this open. Maybe it should actually be changed.

adam-waldenberg avatar May 31 '16 20:05 adam-waldenberg

I also found this terminology confusing. I looked in vain to find out what gitinspector considers a row. Rows are for databases and tables; source code has lines (LOC = lines of code); I have never seen a LOC referred to as row (except now, in gitinspector :-).

Suggestions:

  • Devote an item in the FAQ to this.
  • (Better) Provide (more) documentation on the metrics, and explain the terminology there.

wstomv avatar Jan 27 '21 10:01 wstomv