1. I wasn't claiming to justify the bullet points, just pointing out that teaching rules without justification causes "bundling" and might have implications bey

1. I wasn't claiming to justify the bullet points, just pointing out that teaching rules without justification causes "bundling" and might have implications beyond the narrow thing you're trying to teach. 2. Notice that I said I indent my code. I deliberately chose the phrase "not very important" rather than "not useful". Your links seem to back me up there. The fact that those studies on line length yield equivocal results, might it not suggest that the content of the lines has a larger impact on comprehension? I can agree with you that a few scattered islands in the ocean have land, and still consider you wildly misguided for choosing to explore them rather than the huge continental landmass beyond the ocean. 3. I think most code is utterly illegible gibberish to everyone but the author[1][2]. This isn't directly the fault of code-style rules, but it is caused by the pernicious idea that the code style rules are all you need. Now, nobody actually thinks that, but spending a lot of time talking about superficial details gives the mind a powerful subconscious cue. [1] http://akkartik.name/about http://akkartik.name/about [2] http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad