Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:19:39 +0100, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> I beg to (partially) disagree here: reading a newspaper has nothing to
> do with reading a program.

Of course it does, because the process of reading is same.

Program reading requires even shorter lines because the reader searches and
compares program texts more often than newspaper texts.

> In programming, most identifiers are far longer than five characters,
> especially if you are use-phobic (hint, hint).

Right, yet another argument for "use" against fully qualified names.

> And you want to read
> exactly what's written, not what your brain thinks is written!

Without brain thinking, you mean? (:-))

BTW, the argument to exactness works rather against you. Consider how texts
on mathematics are formatted. Formulae have always *shorter* lines than
plain texts, to be read "exactly."

> I agree that /some/limitation is necessary, but 80 is far to narrow,
> leading to excessive folding in nested constructs.

I disagree. The text should be possible to show side-by-side, e.g. ads and
adb files. Deeply nested constructs is IMO bad style, to be factored out
into local procedures.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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