What about depth? What if we said your first sentence was 8 deep.
One layer for each reference (obj.index, f_mode, state[1]), +1 layer for each statement: == 0, > 3, != null, &&, and (…).
Giving literature and specific sentences reading levels is similar to what you’re asking.
One expression, such as ‘obj.index’, might itself be very deep: obj.index, object and its properties, function, perhaps what created it, and so on.
I don’t know that ‘depth’ is the word you were looking for, perhaps there’s a fancy scientific word to be found. If I wanted to get into it, I’d look into linguistics research on quantifying comprehension and related topics.
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What about depth? What if we said your first sentence was 8 deep. One layer for each reference (obj.index, f_mode, state[1]), +1 layer for each statement: == 0, > 3, != null, &&, and (…).
Giving literature and specific sentences reading levels is similar to what you’re asking.
One expression, such as ‘obj.index’, might itself be very deep: obj.index, object and its properties, function, perhaps what created it, and so on.
I don’t know that ‘depth’ is the word you were looking for, perhaps there’s a fancy scientific word to be found. If I wanted to get into it, I’d look into linguistics research on quantifying comprehension and related topics.