SJS wrote: > Except that it *doesn't* improve readability. > > The eye *believes* whitespace, but it's also not very good at it. It's > okay at determining that yeah, verily, there *is* whitespace, but it's > not very good at determining how much. For very small programs, that's > okay; but these languages are no longer being used solely for small programs. > If you honestly believed that, you shouldn't indent your code. In fact, as an experiment, I encourage you to compare your code before and after such a transformation. I assure you that the vast majority of the population will be more quickly able to determine the location of a start and end block when the block is properly indented with whitespace.
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