[Lazarus] clarification / Re: constant-highlight ? [Re: quick opinion poll / pascal highlighting "case"]

[waldo kitty]

On 5/26/2010 12:06, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> But when having it formatted like this
>

if x then
   begin
     code;
   end
else
   if y then
      begin
        code;
      end
   else
      begin
        code;
      end;

>
> you can immediately see that the new-command has to be inserted like that:
>

if x then
   begin
     code;
   end
else
   begin
     new-command;
     if y then
       begin
         code;
       end
     else
       begin
         code;
       end;
   end;

i also recall how i used to scroll thru hundreds of pages looking for a 
procedure that i needed to work on... using (holding down) the arrow keys to 
scroll hundreds and hundreds of lines, i wasn't looking for specific code, at 
that point, but more of the flow of the indents... in fact, one might say that i 
would "blur" my eyes so as to see the "shape" of the left side of the code... i 
definitely wasn't focusing on it or trying to read it at that point...

i'm not sure how to really explain it but maybe similar to looking for a section 
of shoreline by picking out the surrounding areas...

indents are nothing... they are simply spaces and can actually be eliminated 
from all source code... the compiler doesn't care about them... they are a human 
necessity (crutch?) ;)