Jerry Daniels wrote:
I do think that there is a conceptual model of what a script is: a
single body of text. Inserting folders into the code REALLY slows down
rendering. We have links in our code now, I found embedded folder
images made script rendering slow. Super slow.
Furthermore, the nature of the script that i think is antithetical is
the flexibility of rev talk. How many ways can you write if-then-
else's? Lots. I've actually tried and used folders in rev scripts and
it wasn't as rewarding as I would have thought.
This may ultimately be merely a matter of taste, but my own preference
mirrors yours.
I believe there is cognitive value in seeing the thing you're working
on, and as you note a script is a block of text. A good editor can make
it easy to navigate that block of text, but altering how it's displayed
is not without tradeoffs.
Folding hides complex code, but doesn't make it any simpler. In fact,
once could argue it encourages complexity by making it easy to ignore it.
Showing code as it is is like a mirror to your mind: you can't ignore
the blemishes.
If a handler is so long that folding would seem useful, sometimes that
can be an indication that it might be useful to consider breaking it
into subroutines.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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