-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bob La Quey wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 9:25 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:27:13PM -0800, SJS wrote: >>> What's amusing is that when I do read python or IAS psuedocode in a book >>> (or printed out), I annotate it with vertical lines from the initial >>> keyword to the closing block. That is, >>> >>> while expression1 while expression1 >>> if expression2 | if expression2 >>> do something ===> | | do something >>> else | else >>> do something else | |__do something else >>> |_____ >> I find the code on the right significantly more difficult to read. The >> lines are just noise that make the code harder to find. > > Agreed. Noise is all that was added. I do hope such abortions > are not being taught.
Sadly, I remember being taught to do such [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$# when I was first instructed to code (and definitely not an IAS language). It made me ill back then too. - --Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHfR6HOagjPOywMBARAoSuAJ4p8l6D0IQ3X6WNovLUhJ7+uu7n7QCfWGDK M9PgjWjf6U0WBY3mVVSTcSM= =f/dH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
