Lindsay Marshall wrote:

Are you serious?



I hope he is - I find things with underbars in them unreadable in the extreme - the under_bar pulls the eye down by pretending to be some kind of weird descender or something and makes things difficult to read.


OK, but i personally never meet a programmer complaining about this, so i suppose that most people get used to underscore in a short period.
(And, as i said, underscores are easy to display or print as spaces, althrough i personally won't do that).
On the other hand, you will always need some effort to understand identifiers without spaces, and I think this is a much bigger problem.


But maybe do we both just fell confortable with what we are used to read?

So i suggest a simple experiment : let's compare the average speed to read some short story
1 - with all blanks removed,
2 - with all blanks replaced with _,
by two groups of peoples with no programming background.


Anyone willing to bet with me on the result? :-)
I personally bet the second group will be 30% faster!

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Lionel Draghi                        http://swpat.ffii.org/index.fr.html



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