From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 2 16:21:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail32.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail32.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F7237B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail32.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011002232116.GRFL4599.femail32.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:21:16 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011002191509.017e3a40@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:21:02 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: code density vs readability In-Reply-To: <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010927141333.A44288@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:31 AM 10/2/2001, j mckitrick wrote (edited): >All of this occurred to me as I >was reading some new VS code that also has spaces before and after >parentheses. It's because the editor does not match pairs, so they rely >on visual cues to do it themselves. God, i love real editors. Unless you're talking about something different than what I'm thinking about, the default editor in Visual Studio does match parentheses and braces. But this still doesn't really change the fact that regardless of how easy it is for my editor/compiler to match parentheses, it doesn't make it one bit easier for *me* to see those pairs when I'm looking at my code on screen or paper. Those code structuring techniques are for us people, not the tools. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message