Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin

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From: Miles Bader
Date: Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 3:43 pm

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

It bloats the code, and makes it less readable.

[My conjecture is that the latter happens because braces are so visually
striking that they attract the eye; for _long_ blocks, this property of
braces helps, because it makes it easier to find them amongst the rest
of the code, but for _short_ blocks, it hurts, because it draws the eye
away from the actual code, and emphasizes structure at a time when
structure doesn't need emphasizing (because it's utterly obvious already
with such short blocks).]

-Miles

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[PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Shawn Bohrer, (Tue Nov 6, 10:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Nov 7, 4:10 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Bill Lear, (Wed Nov 7, 6:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Nov 7, 7:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Matthieu Moy, (Wed Nov 7, 7:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Shawn Bohrer, (Wed Nov 7, 7:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Nov 7, 8:04 am)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Jon Loeliger, (Wed Nov 7, 12:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Brian Downing, (Wed Nov 7, 1:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 7, 2:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin, Miles Bader, (Sat Nov 10, 3:43 pm)