From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T05:55:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Pythonic indentation (or: beating a dead horse)

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ryo Furue <furue@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On May 20, 9:50 am, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Rick's point remains.  If this is an issue you're facing, get a better editor.
>
> But, the amount of meaningful code displayed in a single screenshot
> still suffers.  A screenful is a chunk of code
> you can see without scrolling or jumping.  The more meaning it
> contains, the better you understand the code (as long as the meaning
> is cleanly laid out, of course).

I still think this is a straw man.   I'm rarely concerned with the
'readability' of a whole page of code.
I feel like there is something wrong with my design when I have to
think at that level.

For what it's worth, I actually can care less whether whitespace is
significant or not.  Significant whitespace doesn't bother me in Haml.
The lack of significant whitespace doesn't bother me in Ruby.

What does bother me is that people somehow think this issue is so
important and dire, yet they think it's someone else's job to fix it.
If you want Ruby with significant whitespace, build it.   Don't try to
convince folks who don't care about the issue.

-greg