Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin

From: Miles Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:43:37 +0900

Bill Lear <[email-masked]> writes:
> Why do you find it objectionable?

It bloats the code, and makes it less readable.

[My conjecture is that the latter happens because braces are so visually
striking that they attract the eye; for _long_ blocks, this property of
braces helps, because it makes it easier to find them amongst the rest
of the code, but for _short_ blocks, it hurts, because it draws the eye
away from the actual code, and emphasizes structure at a time when
structure doesn't need emphasizing (because it's utterly obvious already
with such short blocks).]

-Miles

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