Exceptional coding style

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 04:45:02 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 14 January 2013 at 23:48:14 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> mist:
>>
>>> I am most unpleasant with vertical space point. Times when 
>>> screen space was that important are long gone - I generally 
>>> can understand less at once than can possibly fit with 9th 
>>> font size on 24 inch screen.
>>
>> I prefer a larger font and less wasted lines.
>> The very very airy style of C# coding worsens my code 
>> understanding.
>>
>>
>>> And extra vertical spaces are like semantic formatting tools 
>>> for plain text - can group related blocks perfectly and speed 
>>> up reading.
>>
>> The idea of not wasting lines doesn't go against the idea of 
>> adding blank lines to create code paragraphs. When you are 
>> adding a line to divide chunks, you are not wasting vertical 
>> space, it's a well used line :-)
>>
>
> I could explain it better.
>

s/could/couldn't/

> Plus, in some languages, (yes javascript, I'm looking at you) 
> semicolon are inserted in places that can create very nasty 
> bugs when changing line like that. I know it isn't really an 
> argument that apply for C/C++/D but it does matter for a 
> programmer that use both C/C++/D and such a language (as I do).