(I can't remember the exact subject line...) I am surprised that thomas has not mentioned the fact (because it occurs in a book that I am reading and that I know he is reading.hasread...) that Latin used to be written without spaces, and the practice was defended by Cassian (?) who said that slowing the reader down meant more meditation and thus more opportunity for the glorification of god. The idea of forcing people to read slowly is interesting - we all know that we miss the the kind of error I just made because the eye skims over it and corrects. It really doesn't matter in natural language, but certainly would in code. Slowing reading down may allow a certain class of errors to be spotted more easily.
Could this be applied to code inspection? In the circumstances where other people are looking at the code, play with its display in such a way that they have to read it more slowly. Just a thought. BTW I have been playing with varying weight and typeface in Komodo and I think that there are indeed some advantages over what just using colour gives you. L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
