On 01/18/13 02:59, Walter Bright wrote: > On 1/14/2013 3:19 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: >> It is funny how statements about beauty of code tend to overemphasize the >> importance of trivial formatting rules. This is completely irrational. >> Formatting is a part of the process that could be trivially automated. It is >> not >> what the substance is. > > Pedantically, you are correct. > > But in practice, I find over and over again that carefully formatted code > tends to go hand in hand with well designed code. > > It's like internet postings. If you see a posting in ALL CAPS, or all lower > case, or sloppy grammar/spelling, or long runon sentences, or no paragraph > breaks, etc., it's almost certainly devoid of interesting content. If you see > an electronics board with a rat's nest of wires and sloppy construction, odds > are high it won't work. If you see a neatly laid out board, odds are it works. > > And so on for just about every engineering/construction work.
This is one of the reasons why automatic code formatting is such a bad idea. artur
