On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 23:48:14 UTC, bearophile wrote:
mist:
I am most unpleasant with vertical space point. Times when
screen space was that important are long gone - I generally
can understand less at once than can possibly fit with 9th
font size on 24 inch screen.
I prefer a larger font and less wasted lines.
The very very airy style of C# coding worsens my code
understanding.
And extra vertical spaces are like semantic formatting tools
for plain text - can group related blocks perfectly and speed
up reading.
The idea of not wasting lines doesn't go against the idea of
adding blank lines to create code paragraphs. When you are
adding a line to divide chunks, you are not wasting vertical
space, it's a well used line :-)
I could explain it better.
Plus, in some languages, (yes javascript, I'm looking at you)
semicolon are inserted in places that can create very nasty bugs
when changing line like that. I know it isn't really an argument
that apply for C/C++/D but it does matter for a programmer that
use both C/C++/D and such a language (as I do).
