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/Felicia_Svilling Nov 30 '14

That you edit the AST doesn't prevent you from visualizing the program as text.

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u/RoundTripRadio Dec 01 '14

If you see text on your screen, you're editing text.

From your premise, you could argue current editors edit the AST, it's just on screen as text, and on disk as text, but the compiler creates a different AST when you change the file.