in reply to Re: (Ovid) Re: On Removing Elements from Arrays
in thread On Removing Elements from Arrays
Your pair of 3-space indents amounts to a 6-space indent. Exactly the combination that had people's self-reporting about usability conflicting with their actual performance. In my books aesthetic judgements lose to performance every time!
Therefore I would suggest that you either change your overall layout style, or change from 3 characters at each step to 2.
Steve McConnell goes on in 18.4 to say why he thinks that a double-indentation style is a bad idea due to the fact that the resulting code winds up looking far more complex than it is. However the actual research he found didn't really show whether or not there was a large real difference. Therefore while I agree with him that you are making the mind process a large amount of irrelevant structure at a glance, I wouldn't say that item is nearly as important as making your overall indentation smaller.
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