[GSOC] regular expressions beta is here

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 10.08.2011 22:11, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:59:27 +0300, Dmitry Olshansky 
> <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> About spaces personally I dislike eating extra vertical space for
>>>> "clarity", curly braces on it's own line is already way too much.
>>> Think about reading a book without the half lines between 
>>> paragraphs. In code it's the same. Some empty lines are good to 
>>> improve readability of the code. Curly braces are not always 
>>> present, sometimes a paragraphs ends before or after or right on a 
>>> curly brace.
>>
>> Braces *are* paragraphs of code, with proper indention it's more then 
>> enough to fell the structure. If I really need to stop in the middle 
>> function, it's to explain something, then a single line of comment 
>> instead of meaningless empty line (which leaves reader clueless as to 
>> why) is good enough. Except that I'm not opposed to spaces at global 
>> scope.
>
> I agree with bearophile; I find code that leaves a blank line between 
> closely-related lines make the code much more readable. I don't 
> understand what's with the craving for maximum vertical terseness 
> either, but that may be because the resolution of my primary monitor 
> is currently 1200x1920 :)
>
Lucky you, hm... probably turning my monitor on 90 degrees can get me in 
this league of abundant vertical space :)

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Dmitry Olshansky