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> If you follow this reasoning I think you'd also have to shun line breaks and indentation. Not quite. As I'm sure you know, written languages have evolved ove
by evoxed 14y ago
> If you follow this reasoning I think you'd also have to shun line breaks and indentation.
Not quite. As I'm sure you know, written languages have evolved over time in order to meet the needs of readers and writers alike. That includes capital/lowercase, roman style (i.e. non-script) lettering, spaces, leading and paragraph indentation (thanks to printers), etc. It isn't helpful to blindly latch on to seemingly cute analogies, but in this case I think it's a pretty fair comparison. I imagine others who don't use highlighting all the time would agree that it's a happy or at least comfortable middle ground. I'm a little sleepy-eyed now and shouldn't still be typing, so sorry if my tone reflects negatively. I think the response below (corwinstephen) brings up the same thing, except if you like highlighting then your middle ground leans further towards an explicit, notated style.
- bmj 14y agoFurther, if you write a list of instructions (say, a recipe), you will likely follow a convention that puts each instruction on a separate line, and might make use of indentation to further delineate sub-instructions.
- joesb 14y ago> ... capital/lowercase, roman style (i.e. non-script) lettering, spaces ... I think this are poor man's syntax hi-lighting. Or at least physical world implementation of syntax hi-lighting. After all, you don't want to carry a lots of colors pen in order to write. But if computer can do it for us, why not?