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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:10:06 MST
- From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph@cs.arizona.edu>
- Message-ID: <199211182110.AA11937@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
- Subject: Re: Second argument to softf
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- 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.
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- On more than one occassion, I've reformatted programs for publication
- by breaking up long multi-statement lines into single lines.
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- For me, at least, using lines to separate statements not only makes programs
- easier to write; it makes them easier to read.
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- For Icon, read "expressions" for "statements". The point is the same.
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- Ralph E. Griswold ralph@cs.arizona.edu
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