Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[Kent Friis <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

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Den Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:42:56 GMT skrev Paul Schlyter:
> In article <4481749f$0$15787$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
> Kent Friis  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Den Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:53:25 -0700 skrev Michael J. Mahon:
>>
>>> Many years later, I think that the "offside rule" for delimiting
>>> blocks simply by indentation is a very nice approach.  Why on
>>> earth should white space, the most significant characteristic of
>>> text to the human eye, be ignored by most programming languages?
>> 
>> For the same reason that comments, the most human readable text found
>> in a program, are ignored by the programming language. Whitespace is
>> an important part of making the program more readable.
>> 
>> A programming language that prevents me to use white space to make
>> code readable (because that would change what the code does) is just
>> as bad as one that prevents me from writing a comment where needed
>> (Actually, Visual Basic .NET does that in certain places. Yuck).
>
> Check out Python - there indentation delimits if blocks.  And I cannot
> se any reason why:
>
>    if condition
>    statement1
>    statement2
>    else
>    statement3
>    statement4
>    rest_of_program
>
> is more readable than:
>
>    if condition
>       statement1
>       statement2
>    else
>       statement3
>       statement4
>    rest_of_program
>
> :-)

For the same reason that /* aadkfjghaldfjghsdklfgjhasdklguaadfkghj */
is better than being unable to write a comment: Both are stupid examples
of using a thing meant for making things easier for the exact opposite
cause.

Now try to imagine that someone wants to indent code to actually make
it *more readable*, just like someone writing comments to actually
explain what's going on. Then you might see the point.

/Kent
-- 
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