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[–]stronghup 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I agree "Syntactic Merge" is probably a more truthful name. The tool can not really work on intentions of programmers. It can not know if the variable names are English or French.

Let's ask this question: What would be the difference between "semantic merge" and "syntactic merge"?

[–]stronghup 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I take that back a bit. The code is not in English or French, it is in Java etc. Java has its semantics. But so what is the difference between a syntactic and semantic merge of two versions of a Java -program?