Re: Crash Course in POD

You mean, it colour codes your text? I hate *that*. I don't like my code to look like a christmas tree. And, IMO, colourcoding editors do not contribute to writing clear code. If you need your code to be coloured to make sense out of it, then there's something wrong with your code. Good code doesn't need colours.

Abigail

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Colour-coding code by crenz (Priest) on Apr 23, 2003 at 13:57 UTC
Colour-coding is definitely a matter of style. Personally, I very much like simple colour-coding. I find that even just colouring strings, numbers and comments makes code so much more readable. But maybe I'm not writing good code :) Apart from the subject matter, I find it interesting how you phrase your argument. Inferring that code will look like a christmas tree if you use the ever-slightest colour-coding definitely is an unusual chain of reasoning... Good arguments don't need strange reasons to support them.	[reply]
Colour and syntax by zby (Vicar) on Apr 23, 2003 at 14:37 UTC
For me colour is a syntax shortcut. It shorcirquits some brainpaths and lets you parse the code with less effort.	[reply]