From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 22 22:49:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C7637B401; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:49:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0FD43EA3; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0024.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.24] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18FU6f-0001bW-00; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:49:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDF241B.FF30ACE2@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:45:47 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: John Baldwin , Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Style(9) question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 4:08 PM -0500 2002/11/22, John Baldwin wrote: > > The reason to not put them in is to avoid wasting screen real-estate > > on mostly blank lines. You also errantly assume that you will always > > come back and add more statements later. :) > > I'm sorry. Why do we care about screen real-estate and having > mostly blank lines, if this might help us write more correct and > secure programs? And might help us write code that can be more > easily managed in the future? Hard as this is to believe, some people don't have eidetic memories, and they're not just "faking it" so they can pretend not to remember some inconvenient fact. That means that they are limited to holding in their head only the maximum amount of data that can be displayed on a screen at a time, so the more non-whitespace data you can display in a limited amount of real-estate, the better. ;^). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message