I've always thought that using vertical space and indentation alone to organize code was a failure of imagination for IDE development. Why can't the IDE allow for and auto-format code in a horizontal line? For instance, I can easily imagine background color shading as an indicator of logical depth. That would be fun to play with.
And along those lines, why do coding best practices always encourage vertically stretched out logic? Its analogous to writing all literature as poetry. That's clearly suboptimal or at least limiting if you can read multiple ideas in a horizontal line.
So, I think, ideally, semantically-aware IDEs should allow for any formating and supply dynamic adjusters which can reformat code to the users preference, then save it in a presentation-agnostic encoding.
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I've always thought that using vertical space and indentation alone to organize code was a failure of imagination for IDE development. Why can't the IDE allow for and auto-format code in a horizontal line? For instance, I can easily imagine background color shading as an indicator of logical depth. That would be fun to play with.
And along those lines, why do coding best practices always encourage vertically stretched out logic? Its analogous to writing all literature as poetry. That's clearly suboptimal or at least limiting if you can read multiple ideas in a horizontal line.
So, I think, ideally, semantically-aware IDEs should allow for any formating and supply dynamic adjusters which can reformat code to the users preference, then save it in a presentation-agnostic encoding.