* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2006-06-24 00:10]:
> > in which case all attempts to fit it into 80 column lines are
> > contortions that serve no other purpose than to distract
> > while reading but particularly while writing.
>
> You're confusing lines and statements.
Not at all.
> a = function(a fairly complex expression, another expression);
>
> That fits on one line, but I'm inclined to write it as:
>
> a = function(
> a fairly complex expression,
> another expression
> );
Yes, so do I. Btw, kudos for *not* writing it as
a = function(a fairly complex expression,
another expression);
as many C people do. Ugh.
> Simply because it's easier to read and provides redundancy and
> documentation.
I was with you up to "easier to read", but uh, where's the
redundancy and documentation in that example?
> > Any code formatting rule that cannot be formalised so that
> > software can do it is a bad formatting rule;
>
> That's fine, documentation isn't "a formatting rule". You might
> as well say the same thing about comment and function name
> rules.
Not at all the same thing. Code layout and identifier names play
in completely different leagues.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
