On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:51:24PM -0800, SJS wrote:
You do an experiment first: take your biggest, most important codebase,
strip out all of the leading whitespace, and save it. Delete all backups
and version-control repositories, so you don't cheat*.
After this transformation, how fast can you get a working codebase back?
Why is this relevant?
If you use a language where leading whitespace is part of the grammar, it
becomes important to preserve. That has to be weighted in as one of the
advantages/disadvantages of doing it that way.
How would this be different than asking to strip out braces with the
indentation in C code. You have about the same level of semantic
difficulty to reconstruct it.
I personally don't mind having both indentation and braces, but _only_ if
my editor figures out the indentation for me. That way, the indentation is
really just an artifact of the expression. If I have to think about both,
it is an unnecessary burden.
Dave
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