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Yes, but in this case it's not about readability, but about extremely significant whitespace. Forgetting a space and your code has a totally different meaning.
by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Yes, but in this case it's not about readability, but about extremely significant whitespace. Forgetting a space and your code has a totally different meaning.
- xyzzyb 14y agoWhitespace is already extremely significant in programming. "foo[1]" vs "foo [1]" for example.
- pilot_pirx 14y agoDepends on language, in Ruby those statements would be identical. But anyway, that's no reason to make things even worse.
- mbrubeck 14y agoIn Ruby those statements are the same when foo is bound to an array, but they are different when foo is bound to a function...