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The war is ending though. It will be over when we finally format code at read-time so that we respect the viewer's preferences, instead of at save-time to refl
by conartist6 1y ago
The war is ending though.
It will be over when we finally format code at read-time so that we respect the viewer's preferences, instead of at save-time to reflect the authors'.
- mjburgess 1y agoVertical spacing, ideally, reflects the thought process behind the construction of code: it's semantic. Read-time revisions to spacing need, only, to change the non-intentional elements of spacing -- indent depth is a very good candidate for this (hence the tab character!).
- Ferret7446 1y agoWe already do format code at read-time if you use a decent editor/IDE. You can add smudge/clean filters to Git also.