On 01/15/2013 12:26 AM, mist wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 22:53:05 UTC, FG wrote:
On 2013-01-14 22:31, mist wrote:
That guy has rather weird sense of beauty... My eyes started bleeding
at the
"Spacing" section.
I sympathize. He posted the worse code excerpt to prove his point. :)
I am most unpleasant with vertical space point.
I think it is one of the more sensible ones. Completely unrelated to
code beauty though.
Times when screen space was that important are long gone
This generally comes up as an argument in these discussions, but I don't
buy it. Not all development is done on a desktop with a huge screen. And
even then, there is always something to put on it. What window manager
are you using?
- I generally can understand less at
once than can possibly fit with 9th font size on 24 inch screen.
In my experience, the screen is always too small. I prefer font size 12
though.
And extra vertical spaces are like semantic formatting tools for plain text
- can group related blocks perfectly and speed up reading.
Sure, I do that too when appropriate. That is not an excuse for wasting
space gratuitously, making them harder to spot.
Ultimately, it is entirely a matter of habituation. (So you might as
well just prefer the format that is more efficient.)
