----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "AbiWord-dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: outlines vs. lists (was Re: Commit: Various Lists UI
improvements.)
> For anyone who's interested, see
> http://www.cawley.demon.co.uk/lang.html. Read the section "Folding -
> and generalized folds". See this example:
>
> <begin quote>
> However, one could also fold within a line. For example, it is surely
> informative to replace the code fragment
>
> (today.day >= MONDAY) && (today.day <= FRIDAY) &&
> !today.is_public_holiday()
> with
> today is a working day
> especially if the more legible but less precise formulation can be
> unfolded instantaneously into the exact representation, should that be
> needed.
> <end quote>
>
> Mike -- have you ever used a folding editor? Was it useful? If not,
> was it because the concept was not useful or because it wasn't, for
> example, integrated with an IDE?
I rember coding in AMOS Professional on the Amiga. In it's IDE you could
'fold' procedures. I've always wonderes why the professional C++ IDEs don't
have a similar feature. Perhaps it's because it encourages large files by
making files seem shorter that they really are (because functions/methods
are folded)?
Jamie.
