Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 02:23:53 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Style(9) question Message-ID: <a05200f22ba05d9465f9a@[192.168.0.3]> In-Reply-To: <3DDF241B.FF30ACE2@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20021122160808.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <a05200f1eba04a864625b@[192.168.0.3]> <3DDF241B.FF30ACE2@mindspring.com>
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At 10:45 PM -0800 2002/11/22, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 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.
I know I cut off the smiley. I know.
On the serious side, this isn't a bad argument. I don't think
it's as good as "we follow the standard because it is the standard",
but it's not bad.
However, I would observe that screens are getting larger, windows
should be getting larger, and you should be able to have more stuff
on screen at once. Indeed, I would argue that perhaps the problem is
that there is too much stuff on screen at once, and that this has
been a problem for some time.
In music, the silences are just as important, if not more
important, than the notes. In print publications, proper use of
white space is just as important as the writing.
I submit that in coding, less dense spaces caused by things like
braces can help improve the overall readability of the program, and
thus the probability of being able to more correctly maintain it.
Or do you really want single-line programs that comprise tens of
thousands of kilobytes (or megabytes) of memory? After all, if the
goal is to cram everything together onto the smallest number of lines
possible, we can just remove all whitespace everywhere.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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