MATLAB & Objective-C confused

[mcg1969]

I haven't written a lick of code in Objective-C, but Sourcerer sure thinks I do :-) I can understand why, but it would be great if there's a way to do a more advanced syntax analysis to differentiate between the two languages with unfortunately identical file suffixes.

[asurkov]

@mcg1969 could you please provide an example of your matlab code which is recognized as objective-c. I believe our samples [1] don't cover your case.

[1] https://github.com/sourcerer-io/sourcerer-app/tree/develop/src/test/resources/samples/Matlab

[mcg1969]

Feel free to take anything from either of these:

• https://github.com/cvxr/CVX
• https://github.com/cvxr/TFOCS

Again, I've written no Objective-C, so all of the 681 commits and 110775 LOC being reported on my profile are actually MATLAB.

[asurkov]

I imported all samples above, and no one of '.m' files was recognized as 'objective-c' (there's two of them recognized as mathematica, but it is a different story). @yaronskaya any ideas, where where it gets broken then?

[asurkov]

here's matlab samples pull request - #342

[sergey48k]

@asurkov if this is merged and deployed, could you close the issue?

[mcg1969]

All I know is that my profile still claims I'm a prolific Objective-C developer.
https://sourcerer.io/mcg1969

[asurkov]

@sergey48k right, PR is merged, but the issue is not fixed yet. Let me follow up with @yaronskaya on this.

[anatolystansler]

Hi @mcg1969!

Your profile was updated. It's a proper Matlab developer profile now :)

Feel free to reopen the issue if you have any other problems.

[mcg1969]

Thank you for working on this! Unfortunately, something still seems amiss.

For one thing, my pie chart has a nice big section for "Wolfram". I've never programmed in that language, ever.

Secondly, my most "important" repository, subjectively, is CVX; and for some reason, in the "Repository Facts" section, it claims that it's HTML (it's Matlab, though there is some auto-generated HTML documentation) and that it use "cookie" technology, which as far as I know, it doesn't. Again, it's fair to detect that there is HTML in there; but that seems like a reasonable pattern to expect HTML documentation (and, in my case, ReStructured Text as well) inside a code repo.

So it still seems like the language detection logic isn't quite there yet.

[mcg1969]

@anatolystansler for some reason I can't reopen the issue; your permissions must be set to disallow that.

[asurkov]

@mcg1969 Wolfram is used as a fallback language, when content of *.m or *.nb file extensions is not recognized. Do you have repos other than CVX and TFOCS, which have *.m or *.nb files?

[mcg1969]

I'm afraid I do not. But I'm quite surprised that there isn't enough distinctive MATLAB in either of these modules to properly alert you!