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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 204, Issue 28
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Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez |
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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 204, Issue 28 |
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Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:11:21 +0100 |
Hi Richard
I was talking about visually impaired people who use tts and, frankly speaking,
a brace stands out much more than an indentation. The feedback I have is
explicit braces are helpful for them when reading through the code.
Just my.02 cents,/PA
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> El 1 mar 2021, a las 7:04, David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
> escribió:
>
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>>
>> The reason we don't use braces in cases like this
>>
>> if (use_short_answers)
>> {
>> return call1 (intern ("y-or-n-p"), prompt);
>> }
>>
>> is that the braces cause fewer real lines of code to fit on the
>> screen. Because of that, they are not merely superfluous, they are an
>> impediment to reading the code.
>
> Different people look at it... differently. It probably depends on how
> you were taught. I was taught C coding with the above style and my eye
> is used to seeing the code structure this way. Remove the braces above
> and it gets a little harder for me when you have a chain of these
> if-thens.
>
> --
> David Masterson