Levi Pearson wrote:
There is more to readability than subjective opinions of beauty,
though. For one, if something is not visible, it is not readable.
Therefore, my formatting was objectively more readable than the
original. That trumps some abstract and ill-defined notion of beauty
in my book, though I happen to think mine looks much better anyway.
And you probably always will, for the following reason:
For me, readability has more to do with consistency than white space
usage or brace placement. I personally have become accustomed to this style:
if( something )
{
return false;
}
So, things like this just cause me to have to mentally tokenize the
code, rather than speed read through it:
if( something ) { return false; }
I don't think either style is more or less readable, inherently, but my
mind has been trained to read the former, so I process it more quickly.
I used to optimize my code layout for vertical compactness, but I don't
feel it has made any difference for the readability of my code *to me*.
There are many better ways to make code readable than white space, I've
found, and they all have more to do with well thought-out logic and good
design.
Just my quarter million Turkish Lira.
--Dave
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