Re: Check for redundancy

[tomas]

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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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