From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T04:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@talkhouse.com> wrote:
>
> On May 20, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM, J Haas <Myrdred@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On May 20, 8:51 am, Rick DeNatale <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seriously, if you measure things by avoiding extra keystrokes, get a
>>>> better editor.  I value readability over parsimony of lexical items.
>>>
>>> Cluttering up your code with "end" everywhere makes it less readable,
>>> not more.
>>
>> Honestly, that's subjective. Some people prefer delimiters some don't.
>
> Is it subjective?   Neither method is ambiguous.  So no problem there.  But
>  scrolling 16% more often?   That must have some cost to readability.

If you break up code into more files, or use a folding editor, or use
an editor that lets you jump to code by a method name, scrolling is a
non-issue.

Rick's point remains.  If this is an issue you're facing, get a better editor.

-greg