-cov LOC is inadequate for 1 liner branching; need a metric based on branching

[timotheecour]

On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 19:32:37 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> just filed https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18377:

@wilzbach
> It probably makes sense to have a look at how other languages 
> are dealing with this. Seems to be a common problem

some links:
* 
https://www.ncover.com/support/docs/extras/code-coverage/understanding-branch-coverage => "Why do we need the Branch Coverage metric?"
* http://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/coverage-4.4.2/branch.html => 
"coverage run --branch myprog.py"