[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: ChangeLog fontifications
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: ChangeLog fontifications |
Date: |
14 May 2004 13:24:02 +0900 |
Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:
> > [The alternative format you suggest, `(a)(b)(c)' does not provide any real
> > advantage for the reader -- embedded ") (" pairs are in fact _harder_ to
> > parse for a human than commas because they're busier, and less familiar.]
>
> `(a)(b)\n(c)' is better than `(a, b)\n(c)' because the second flavor is
> highly misleading: grouping is artificial.
What can I say? You're wrong. I've used both variants for many years,
and the `(a, b)\n(c)' style is quite a bit easier to read. It's
marginally harder to _write_, if you don't have automatic tools to do
so, but of course emacs users do have such tools.
This isn't some sort of `make the most minimal representation' game
(aka the scheme game :-), it's a practical exercise in choosing a format
that's both easy for humans to read/write and for tools to read/write.
Doing so involves compromises, but the current emacs solution is a good
and practical one.
> Please, switch to `(a, b,\nc)'.
Ain't my decision.
-Miles
--
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, (continued)
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Alan Shutko, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Miles Bader, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Karl Eichwalder, 2004/05/13
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/14
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/17
Re: ChangeLog fontifications, Karl Eichwalder, 2004/05/18