On Sat, April 29, 2006 1:08 am, Paul Novitski wrote:
>> IMHO, vertical aligned brackets can be messy when nesting
>>relatively-small blocks (and seems to me like a lot of wasted space)
>
> I'm struggling to get my head around this concept of 'wasted space'
> with regard to software code. What is it that's getting wasted,
> exactly? If we printed our programs on paper it would be wasted
> trees (page-space) but I almost never do this and I don't know anyone
> who does except banks. It could be seen as a waste of disk space,
> but only at the rate of a few bytes per code block, carriage return
> plus perhaps a couple of tabs. What we must be talking about here is
> a waste of visual space. How does visual space get wasted? Isn't it
> possible to waste something only if it's in finite supply? I guess
> it's being wasted if it's something valuable that's not being
> used. However, the urge to add whitespace to spread things apart is
> done with the intent of making code easier to read, so that seems
> like a use, not a waste.
If you tend to have a fair amount of code with small blocks, and you
can only see X lines on the screen at once, then the wasted space is
in how much of the program logic you can view in one screenful.
I'll also respond to another poster:
I personally have no less/more ease in aligning } with a logic
statement or with another {, *IF* the code is indented properly.
In other words, the vertical alignment is more a function of the
indentation, to me, then of a specific character I have to pick out.
If the code isn't indented properly, well, then, the alignment of
whatever you do vertically doesn't matter much, eh?
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