Re: perl6storm #0050

[Philip Newton]

On 26 Sep 2000, Johan Vromans wrote:

> Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > so fewer "cluttering"
> > parentheses are needed to make things readable while still being correct.
> 
> Since when do parentheses make things less readable?

Each parenthesis is one "token". The more tokens you need to process, to
more you need to think. (Especially if there is little whitespace, but to
some extent also if not.)

> What is your definition of readable?

"I know it when I see it". I don't have a definition that I can put in
words. But it probably involves whitespace between tokens and the number
of tokens.

Cheers,
Philip
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