On 11/20/2013 12:23 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
So, while some cases are clearly objectively bad (e.g. all of the code on one
line), I think that you're going to have a hard time arguing it objectively in
most cases - especially when it comes to legibility, since different people find
different styles to be more legible, and what's more legible often comes down
to what you're used to seeing rather than anything particularly objective.
Legibility can be objective, too.
For example, it is a fact that many fonts do not distinguish O and 0, l and 1.
It is an objective fact that people have trouble distinguishing them. The JSF
C++ coding standard, for example, prohibits using an "l" suffix on integral
literals for that reason.
It's also an objective fact that people have trouble distinguishing:
verylongisanidentifier
from:
verulongsianidentifier
It's not just tomayto-tomahto. Human factors research shows that some designs
are objectively better than others.
