SJS wrote: > Um, no. Don't be stupid. > > The point is that indentation is a _hint_, and not _definitive_. > > Indentation is documentation, not syntax. > Yes, and what is the point of having your syntax not match your documentation beyond leading people on wild goose chases? >> 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. >> > > 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? > I'm not sure I understand the point of your experiment. That said, I'd imagine it'd be a very short time as I can simply use undo in my editor.... ;-)
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