Re: Case dependence and coding standards

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote:
 
:   It is subjective, but I think
: my intuition is influenced by the empirical studies I've read on
: readability and human factors, as well as by the numerous
: misunderstandings I've witnessed people making on poorly formatted
: code and technical prose, not only in software work, but in teaching
: math, language, and electronics, and in reading and writing technical
: material myself.

Could you share your results with us? I think they will add to
the repertoire of people who will make style decisions, and if 
there is sound reasoning behind these decisions, it might increase
the likelihood of of, uhm, common sense.


:> : Notice that I never intended screwing up the comments as your
:> : strawman suggests.
:> 
:> It was not my intention to suggest that you screw up comments.
: 
: But your counterexample was prose such as would only occur
: in comments.  Sorry if I misunderstood your intent.

It might have been an attempt to be a little provocative.
I hope you don't mind. 


-- Georg