Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:47:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <3BBB6B5A.7AA9F659@mindspring.com> References: <20011002213051.A28111@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021606080.7990-100000@brain.mics.net> <20011002214655.A1713@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3BBB64CD.7B3A2C86@mindspring.com> <20011003213024.A660@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I think if you wrote a lot of math code, with expressions like
>
> q[i]=pow(cutoff,expon)*
> pow(1.0/(SQR(sin(pi*(i+1.0)/L))+SQR(cutoff)),expon/2.0);
>
> (or worse) you'd find it more useful to have an editor with syntax
> highlighting...
>
> Yes, you could rewrite that in a more readable way from a
> brace-matching point of view; however, I think it would make it almost
> unreadable from a math point of view. As it is, C's lack of support
> for an exponentiation operator (especially efficient small-integer
> exponentiation) makes it a royal PITA, and necessitates those ugly
> pow() functions as well kludges like the SQR above (a macro defined
> elsewhere). And I'm truly grateful for gcc's __complex__ extension.
I'm a "vi" user ("Vi anonymous members: ``Hi, Terry!''")...
If you are generally paranoid:
:set showmatch
Otherwise, the % key will let you match {, (, and [ manually.
-- Terry
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