/** * @name Complex condition * @description Boolean expressions that are too deeply nested are hard to read and understand. Consider naming intermediate results as local variables. * @kind problem * @problem.severity recommendation * @precision high * @id cpp/complex-condition * @tags testability * readability * maintainability * statistical * non-attributable */ import cpp predicate logicalOp(string op) { op = "&&" or op = "||" } predicate nontrivialLogicalOperator(Operation e) { exists(string op | op = e.getOperator() and logicalOp(op) and not op = e.getParent().(Operation).getOperator() ) and not e.isInMacroExpansion() } from Expr e, int operators where not e.getParent() instanceof Expr and operators = count(Operation op | op.getParent*() = e and nontrivialLogicalOperator(op)) and operators > 5 select e, "Complex condition: too many logical operations in this expression."