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Ordered <set of items> have the advantage of working well with the brain's ability to map its surroundings. "function foo is defined 5 arrow downs above functio

by pacala 8y ago

Ordered <set of items> have the advantage of working well with the brain's ability to map its surroundings. "function foo is defined 5 arrow downs above function bar". When the <set of items> jump around our eyes in arbitrary order, we tend to experience disorientation.

pintxo 8y ago
Same here. OTOH I always wonder if it would not be beneficial if our brain and the code would not rely on spacial distances in code files, but on _call_ distances. Should our spacial map of the code not be the call graph instead of the structure in files and disk?
- vidarh 8y ago
  The call graph can change dramatically with relatively small code changes.
- wires 8y ago
  Totally! I imagine a web of types and function definitions (as diagrams)