Am Dienstag, den 12.02.2008, 16:32 -0800 schrieb David B. Benson:
> The comment about
> copying code breaking something due to indentation-only style
> is most valuable.
Just to complement Jon's view: I don't think there are any *serious*
problems with recovering indented code from web pages or mail quotes.
Just make sure that whitespace is properly handed through, that's all,
and it's not even difficult. Hey, Evolution will even strip the angle
brackets when copying from quoted mail ;-)
The argument for indentation is that you indent your code anyway, so why
specify nesting with both keywords and indentation? That's just silly.
Besides, keywords eat vertical screen estate (if only for the closing
brace or the "end" keyword), and that's a real restriction: the more
code you can see on a screenful, the easier it is to put its
constituents into proper perspective. Coding does get noticeably faster
if you can see more relevant text at a glance (in the time of 24x80
displays, I once got access to a laser printer that could print 200
lines per page in landscape mode; on fanfold paper, that meant a
whopping 400 lines at a glance, and enabled me to analyze the code in a
speed that would have been plain impossible otherwise. I'll trade more
lines per page for almost everything else... though I do appreciate the
occasional blank line to structure the code ;-) )
Of course that's just anecdotal, but anyway.
Regards,
Jo
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