On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Yanni Chiu <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't readability a matter of taste...?
Not according to the pattern description; did you read it? It says, the "tendency of the eye to distinguish and interpolate vertical and horizontal lines. The square brackets used to signify blocks lead the eye to create the illusion of a whole rectangle even though one isn't there." For me, it's absolutely true. > IIRC, the arguments for productivity had to do with everyone just > accepting one standard - not that one standard was "better" than > another, just that there be *one* team standard (in the interest of > productivity). No, universal conformity is not one of the arguments made, nor have I ever felt "consistency for consistency's sake" was ever very useful. Again, I invite you to read the patterns and their basis. > I prefer the "hanging left bracket" because it allows the subsequent > lines to have the same tabbing. That makes me faster, without requiring > an automatic formatter. I'm not sure what "hanging left bracket" is. In Rectangular Block, subsequent lines have the "same tabbing" so it may be the same thing. I don't know how anything related to formatting could be faster than having the machine doing it. But if you are not using automatic-formatting, then you won't really be affected by these proposed pretty-print changes.. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
