On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 16:50:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Seriously, I don't understand what's with this obsession with line count metrics.
While LOC isn't a very good metric, you're complaining about things that aren't really there. Yes you can shorten it to 2 lines, but did he? It looks like he had consistent formatting style across the languages.
If we decided that 2 lines was how we do formatting, what is wrong with that? If it is harder to read (and I believe it is) then our code examples aren't going to attract people even though the line count is down.
All that said, I think the delta is a nice statement.
