From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-05-28T23:58:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [FYKA] Plz comment

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Thomas Kirchner wrote:

> * On May 28 10:15, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman (ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org) wrote:
>> I would prefer keeping the code as compact as possible
>
> Well, that's the problem - you don't always want it as compact as
> possible.

very important point.  power editor users often appreciate having code
formatted in a way that's __not__ compact.  for instance

   table = {
     :t_0 => "zero"  ,
     :t_1 => "one"   ,
     :t_2 => "two"   ,
     :t_3 => "three" ,
   }

which vim can format in a keystroke is really nice for being able to butcher
text in a hurry when an editor supports column highlighting.  trailing commas
mean cutting and pasting won't yield a syntax error, and the whole mess can be
collapsed into three lines with

   table = { 
#{{{
     :t_0 => "zero"  ,
     :t_1 => "one"   ,
     :t_2 => "two"   ,
     :t_3 => "three" , 
#}}}
   }

which shows up in my editor as

   table = { 
+-- 6 lines: -------------------------------------
   }

which is both compact AND easy to edit horizontally or verticaly - but you may
not guess it unless you are using folding, column selection and
auto-formatting.

2 cts.

-a
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