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On Saturday 21 June 2008 15:01:40 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> [2008-06-21 14:05]: > > On Saturday 21 June 2008 13:22:59 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > > * Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> [2008-06-20 23:05]: > > > > Also, I'd like to add that "return" at the end of a > > > > function is almost always pointless, too. > > > > > > Programs should be written for people to read and only > > > incidentally for machines to execute. > > > > With the current state of abundand hardware power, it should be > > no problem to show the human a "human-readable" version of the > > program and let the machine execute the "machine-readable" > > version. > > > > Which, btw, happens, anyway. :) > > > > So the editor could colorize it, pretty-print it, add return > > statements and automatic comments. > > > > Which, btw, happens for most people, anyway. :) > > How can syntax highlighters infer unwritten programmer intent? I dunno. But they make the code easier to read for humans. All the best, Tels -- Signed on Sat Jun 21 15:45:27 2008 with key 0x93B84C15. Get one of my photo posters: http://bloodgate.com/posters PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Sacrificing minions: Is there any problem it CAN'T solve?" -- Lord XykonThread Previous | Thread Next