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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:10:30 MST
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:10:06 MST
From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph>
Message-Id: <199211182110.AA11937@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
To: Paul_Abrahams@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Second argument to softf
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
With semicolons, programmers tend to string a bunch of statements
together on one long line. This often makes programs harder
to read than if they were written one statement per line with
a more vertical layout.
On more than one occassion, I've reformatted programs for publication
by breaking up long multi-statement lines into single lines.
For me, at least, using lines to separate statements not only makes programs
easier to write; it makes them easier to read.
For Icon, read "expressions" for "statements". The point is the same.
Ralph E. Griswold ralph@cs.arizona.edu
Department of Computer Science uunet!arizona!ralph
The University of Arizona 602-621-6609 (voice)
Tucson, AZ 85721 602-621-9618 (fax)