Re: Curly braces and the logic of PERL

From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
Well, this is a limited approach, generated exactly by the fact that some
programmers don't really care about all those who read, but care the most
about their own preferences.

We can't care about ALL those who read it. The best we can do is to
care about MOST. I know it's inconvenient if you are not part of the
majority, but there is little we can do.

I am blind and the visual clues don't mean anything, but make the things
harder to understand.

If I need to read a thread of many email messages, which are usually
received in a separate folder for each mailing list, and where the messages
can be grouped by threads, I *already* know very well what that thread is
all about, and I don't need to re-read or skip tens of lines just in order
to read 2 or 3 new lines.

So top-posting is recommended for this reason.

That's nice and dandy if you do read the thread in one go. If you
read the original message, then half a day later three separate
responses, next day a response to the third response and another
response to the original post and ... and of course in the meantime
you read tens of unrelated messages and have your own things to take
care of. In that case you do need that bit of a history, because more
likely than not, you barely remember you read something that might
have been related a day or two ago. So you'd have to scroll down to
find out what is the author of this particular email responding to.

Jenda
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