Comments on: Using numeric literals to identify application domains http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2010/02/28/using-numeric-literals-to-identify-application-domains/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: seven http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2010/02/28/using-numeric-literals-to-identify-application-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 seven Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:06:24 +0000 http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/?p=181#comment-1870 Man, you have great ideas! Even though the current iteration is aimed at a small niche (most programmers don't swap codebases very often I think), it would be great to integrate this in an IDE to identify magic numbers with a popup. Extending it to ints would make it useful in far more different programs (TCP/IP ports, file format magic numbers, ...) but also more prone to false positives. You would definitely need an additional word-matching filter. Man, you have great ideas! Even though the current iteration is aimed at a small niche (most programmers don’t swap codebases very often I think), it would be great to integrate this in an IDE to identify magic numbers with a popup.

Extending it to ints would make it useful in far more different programs (TCP/IP ports, file format magic numbers, …) but also more prone to false positives. You would definitely need an additional word-matching filter.

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