The whole thing should be condensed to: add(new JScrollBar(scrollBar, HORIZONTAL), BorderLayout.SOUTH); It's self-evident and needs no comment or whitespa

The whole thing should be condensed to: add(new JScrollBar(scrollBar, HORIZONTAL), BorderLayout.SOUTH); It's self-evident and needs no comment or whitespace to "break it up". This is fundamentally a problem with wordy imperative languages. A lifetime ago when I wrote assembly code I would write a comment like this to explain every subsequent 5-10 lines of opaque incantation. Higher level (especially functional) languages tend to have fewer issues like this.