Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:39:55 +0100 | From | Jarek Poplawski <> | Subject | Re: warning: massive change to conditional coding style in net? |
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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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