On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 12:09:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
1100110:
Thats so funny I forgot to laugh.
One common indentation-related bug is caused by relying on the
indentation to understand code, while the curly brace language
compiler ignores what you were seeing and only sees the braces.
I have seen many cases of delayed code understanding caused by
that. Making the syntax more DRY (this means stating the
logical indentation using only one communication channel) helps
avoid those mistakes (and reduces the visual noise, further
helping code readability).
The sane option are either to acknowledge that code is in a text
file and choose syntax construct that make it readable (python)
or decorrelate the presentation of the code from its actual form
in the file and use a formatted.
Other options are choosing on purpose to inflict an extra
workload to yourself, and risking confusion on badly formatted
code.
