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SubjectRe: warning: massive change to conditional coding style in net?
Alan Cox wrote, On 11/30/2009 02:54 PM:

>>> Miller (with Perches) changed hundreds (thousands?) of these to
>>> trailing form. This results in a number of hilarious examples --
>>> lines with both leading and trailing, lines with only &&, etc. A
>>> small sample for illustration:
>> Yes, it's even enough to make a grown man laugh....
>
> IMHO for left to right languages dangly bits want to be on the right,
> because that is where your eyes are when you hit the end of the previous
> line, so the dangly bit is already in your line of vision and probably
> even in focus.

Of course this is right. Plus "IMHO" "habit is the second nature", so
riding the same side of the road helps, even if it's the wrong side. ;-)

Jarek P.



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