Sliding Syntax

[davidn]

ravenworks! Mine's going backwards now.



I shouldn't be too surprised by the sliding syntax highlighting, as Eclipse's normal state is of Boris Johnson-like levels of confusion anyway, but that's the first time I've seen it quite so consistent about anything.

Also pictured is my dreadful top-secretly brilliant Javascript style in a rammed-together collection of Prototype, other JS, and JSP. The indenting style is an artefact of having pieced it together in two different editors with different ideas about tabbing. Note in particular the escaped operators - even though it's pretty much unbeatable in every other respect, not even ZZT had that in its repertoire of lunacy.

Comments

[dr-dos.livejournal.com]

All those braces are why I have fallen in love with Python

[davidn]

It gets really good when you want to get an object by an ID that's passed into the page as a parameter, and the syntax is $('${objectName}') just to retrieve it.

It's actually quite a strange thought to me that Python does away with the brace-swarm and semicolons, relying on whitespace instead... I think I'd feel quite lost without them, now.

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

However, the lack of braces and strict indentation rules make long blocks hard to read. This is a design feature I actually approve of.