Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <3D366103.8010403@zytor.com> you write:
>
>>As far as I could tell, *ALL* of these changes broke text alignment in
>>columns.
>
>
> True.
>
>
>>It would have been a lot better if they had maintained spacing; I
>>find the new code much more cluttered and hard to read.
>
>
> I thought about this: I agree it doesn't look as neat, but "hard to
> read" for what purpose? It's just as easy to find a particular field
> you're looking for and it's just as easy to find the end of the
> declaration: I couldn't come up with a convincing argument for needing
> to skim-read these declarations, so I didn't complain to the author.
>
Neatness is about making it easy to read code *quickly*. The pattern
recognizer in your brain doesn't work as well on a jumbled mess.
-hpa
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