Counting Constructors per Class

[Carina Oberle]

Hi,

I would like to know the average number of methods and constructors per class. 

For this I wrote a small Boa script, which outputs: 

• ~7.3 methods per class
  
• ~0.0006 constructors per class

I expected the number of constructors to be much higher and am wondering if I am missing something. Are the numbers reliable?

I identified constructors by matching method names with the current class name, since I did not find a way to check whether a method has no return type (also no void).

- Carina

[Robert E Dyer]

Hi Carina,

In Boa, constructor methods are named ‘<init>’.  So that is how you can search for constructors!

We really should document this stuff better… I don’t think our Java -> Boa translation strategy is really obvious!

- Robert

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