On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 10:47:19 UTC, mist wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 23:48:14 UTC, bearophile wrote:
And extra vertical spaces are like semantic formatting tools
for plain text - can group related blocks perfectly and speed
up reading.
The idea of not wasting lines doesn't go against the idea of
adding blank lines to create code paragraphs. When you are
adding a line to divide chunks, you are not wasting vertical
space, it's a well used line :-)
Bye,
bearophile
Well, I would not rant about this if not his actual example in
"Spacing" block. This very example of "bad" code has every
empty line added right where it fits. And "good" one is a mess
that hurts my eyes when I try to concentrate on some distinct
parts.
The spacing section is exactly the coding style I use, and
omitting the curly braces will rather sooner than later lead to
more work. Also, "a function should only do one thing" has proven
to work for me. Although there might be a slight performance
penalty if you have more function calls, code maintenance is by
far easier.
