On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:44:33PM -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 20:25 -0600, Rod Adams wrote: > > [snipped] > > > > $x = 4; > > $y = 7; > > $z = 12; > > $r = 4543; > > $q = 121; > > > > With a fixed width font, like all code editors use, all the =' like up, > > and I can quickly scan the var names to get to the one I want to change > > at that moment. > > If you align the equals signs yourself with spaces, you can use variable > names of different lengths (and possibly improved meaningfulness in > actual factual code) too. > > I'm only half-joking. Vertical alignment makes a dramatic difference to > readability.
> > -- c > Speaking of alignement, my understanding is that the .[] operator, allows spacing while [] does not: $a = @shortnm .[0 ]; $b = @longername .[42]; -- stef