J Haas wrote:
> On May 28, 11:33 am, James Britt <james.br... / gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, it's a signal to the human reading the code as well.
>>
>>> Code speaks louder, right? The whole point of writing code is to tell
>>> the interpreter what you want it to do,
>> I'm with Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman on this point:
>>
>> "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for
>> machines to execute."
> 
> Have you noticed that your post is broken into paragraphs, and those
> paragraphs are delimited solely by whitespace, and this does not
> impair readability?
> 
> Have you noticed that this post contains quotes from you, and the
> quotes from you contain quotes from me, and these quotes are delimited
> from each other solely by indentation, and this does not impair
> readability?
> 

Not so.  I have varying levels of '>' characters.  Having only whitespace in a 
back and forth message chain does impair readability as far as I'm concerned.
I ceased long ago using email clients that don't utilize some form of leading 
indicator.