Re^4: Extracting elements from array

When you read English prose like :

He (Tom) ...
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where do you expect to see white space ? Why should your expectations be different for other languages ( even artificial ones ) ?

You have been trained since your first exposure to printed English to very standardised use of white space . Are you suggesting we should throw away all that hard wired preprocessing and reinvent a whole ' nother wheel ? Have you even tried typing prose with " silly " white space ? It ' s actually quite slow because it ' s not at all " natural ". What ' s it like to read ? Do ( ( redundant ) ) or ( unnecessary ) brackets help ?

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Re^5: Extracting elements from array by 1nickt (Canon) on Jan 15, 2016 at 22:05 UTC
Well, besides the eyesight issue, there's the fact that I wasn't actually trained that way in Perl. When I started at the University of RTFM I was looking at a lot of very ugly code. Lots of global vars up top, massive chunks of comments, lots of repeated lines to populate data, lots of report()/write() sections ... all the glories of Perl 4, Matt's Script Archive; it was ugly. The first thing I used to do (and still do) was to put in a bunch of blank lines and spaces so I could see what was going on. I got used to writing that way, and maybe because of that, as you say, and maybe because it's intrinsically clearer, I find it it much easier to take in paragraphs of code at a time. YMMV :-) The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^6: Extracting elements from array by u65 (Chaplain) on Jan 16, 2016 at 11:24 UTC
FWIW, I'm in your camp on using lots of white space and less fancy code.	[reply]