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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
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- Subject: Re: Frustrated Jolyon (was Re: E - Just say NO! (was Re: Visual E - New E
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 14:36:40 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Chad Randall (crandall@mail.msen.com) wrote:
- : Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : : > And I'd rather have to enclose things in ()'s than in {}'s and
- : : > end every statement with a ';' ;}
- : :
- : : It's something I get used to. I end up having to delete lots of pointless
- : : ;s I automatically put at the end of lines when writing E. And why is a {
- : : more dificult or confusing than a (. btw. I have a font with the ( as
- : : bold brackets and the { as normal, so it's easy to distinguish between
- : : them. That's very handy in C....
-
- : That's the reason. With my tiny monitor, and poor eyesight, they look
- : very, very similar to me. Having to create a special font to differenciate
- : between them would be a pain, (well, a minor irk).
-
- If you are limited with a tiny monitor and thus a small font, that's not the
- fault of the language. It's your hardwarelimitation. There are ways to solve
- this. Best would be to buy a 17" monitor and a good graphics card. (I use
- GoldEd on a 1152*900 screen with Courier.font/18) I know that's not the
- cheapest solution. Others are to use syntax highlighting. There's a syntax
- parser for Golded that allows you to change the color of the brackets. That
- way you can easily setup GoldEd so that you can see the difference between
- () and {} without creating a special font.
-
- Hope this helps,
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-