On 2013-04-06, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2013-04-06, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> (*) There was a fad about 10 or 15 years ago to print code >> samples in books in proportional fonts. Prentice-Hall seemed >> to be particularly guilty of this. Fortunately, common sense >> prevailed and everybody has gone back to monotype. > > Bjarne Stroustrup likes it, and I agree with him that code is > even easier to read that way, especially in hard-copy.
I'd have to disagree. There are too many times when things are easier to read/maintain by visually aligning columns: * struct/array initializers * constant definitions * parallel/identical operations on multiple different variables * vertical alignment of a parameter lists in multi-line function calls -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
