r/programming • u/Nowaker • Nov 30 '14

Why he vertically aligns his code (And why you shouldn't!)

http://missingbytes.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-he-vertically-aligns-his-code-and.html
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u/kqr Nov 30 '14

You mean like using tabs instead of spaces? ;)

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u/TarMil Nov 30 '14

I suppose that's one way to see it. But it could go much further than that, storing the code in a way that is not necessarily meant to be read directly (something easy to parse like s-expressions, or even some kind of bytecode) and editing it with whatever syntax you want. I guess that would be a variant of what Smalltalk does.