On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I have no idea how any of this is related to giving programmers the > ability to bicker endlessly about pointless trivialities such as tabs. > v spaces, and/or the strange notion that giving programmers the > ability to louse up their indents is more important than generating > useful and localized error messages when there are syntax errors. > I'm guessing it is a typo, but there is a very funny mental image of adding a specific bug to your code by throwing parasites into your indents. :) My contention is simply that formatting should be a tool used for readability. If you only format code because your language demands it, you likely aren't formatting it to be read by a person. If you never add any white space because you just don't see the point, you are likely not using enough. I don't think this is unique to programming. And I completely reject the idea that programs are not meant to be read by people. I have lost the delusion that others will read my code; however, when I come back to try to understand what I was trying to do again later, I want that to be as pleasant an experience as possible. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
