Comments on: Whitespace sensitivity http://rc3.org/2008/07/01/whitespace-sensitivity/ Strong opinions weakly held Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin Coghill http://rc3.org/2008/07/01/whitespace-sensitivity/comment-page-1/#comment-2758 Colin Coghill Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:33:24 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=8276#comment-2758 <p>I learned recently that the argument that "well programmers indent nicely anyway, so what's the big deal?" is complete rubbish. After looking at a lot of different code from a lot of different programmers, many really don't indent consistently at all.</p> <p>So being forced to indent logically really is demanding extra work that people didn't have to do in their favourite languages.</p> <p>It's scary.</p> <ul> <li>Colin</li> </ul> I learned recently that the argument that “well programmers indent nicely anyway, so what’s the big deal?” is complete rubbish. After looking at a lot of different code from a lot of different programmers, many really don’t indent consistently at all.

So being forced to indent logically really is demanding extra work that people didn’t have to do in their favourite languages.

It’s scary.

  • Colin
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