On 28 May 2009, at 17:30, J Haas wrote:
> I know it looks funny to a lot of people. It looked funny to me the
> first time, too. As I said, my reaction when I first learned of
> significant indentation was the same reaction I've seen from lots of
> developers I've told about it: "what, are you kidding?" But it makes
> sense. After a day or two of playing around with it, you'll find that
> it becomes second nature.

You might just as well tell the Lisp community that all those brackets  
they use are redundant. You might well find some converts, but I  
suspect most people would look at you with a mix of incomprehension  
and revulsion. In a certain sense Lisp *is* the brackets.

So contrary to how you feel about this, one size doesn't fit all -  
especially not in matters of aesthetics. Indeed I suspect that much of  
the resistance that you've experienced in this thread is a reflection  
of the fact that your original post and this one both show an equal  
lack of awareness of that fact.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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