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I think (hope) that it was meant to be funny as opposed to being a serious advice.

• olliesaunders 17y ago
  Oh right. I get it now :-)
• jamesbritt 17y ago
  I've done this with Ruby and set the color to light gray. My co-workers wanted to have C/Java-style parens around damn near everything (except when they didn't; the reasoning to omit them was something along the lines of, "But, see, here it's a DSL." ) They strike me as line noise and make it harder to read many things, so I lightened up the color in my vim syntax files to give the appearance of more white space. I had mixed results. Yes, it was far more readable to me, but there were times when a paren was missing or mistakenly added, or the spacing was off (another coding standard violation), and so on. Now that I code on my own, the new coding standards say no parens unless required by the language. I also changed my syntax coloring back to more clearly show parens.
  • DrJokepu 17y ago
    Heated debates amongst programmers (coworkers) about marginally important questions such as indenting styles, parenthesis usage, naming conventions, source code directory structure, etc. are always very amusing to observe. I usually sit back and just watch the show.
    • jamesbritt 17y ago
      "I usually sit back and just watch the show." Were that always an option. :)