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I've always found code without spaces around these symbols to be very undreadable.

• pilot_pirx 14y ago
  Yes, but in this case it's not about readability, but about extremely significant whitespace. Forgetting a space and your code has a totally different meaning.
  • xyzzyb 14y ago
    Whitespace is already extremely significant in programming. "foo[1]" vs "foo [1]" for example.
    • pilot_pirx 14y ago
      Depends on language, in Ruby those statements would be identical. But anyway, that's no reason to make things even worse.
      • mbrubeck 14y ago
        In Ruby those statements are the same when foo is bound to an array, but they are different when foo is bound to a function...
• megablast 14y ago
  And I have found the opposite. Horses for courses.