Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Text Files Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:20:11 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <5a8459d1$0$707$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <20180225001340.bd7f81cb0c01f2839c600aca@gmail.com> <877er2vzmk.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87y3jiuel4.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <20180225151636.c977d8207b1c3e9fe372c067@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="91969e26702e096475eebe657c83b391"; logging-data="29737"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18pZTnuioII2hA6W1IAHPi9" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WLAz3+G6vCjpSpUsUP0lmwosCXI= sha1:8pywTURXdh6nUOpCX4rZ9wSTDcU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:127054 Anton Shepelev writes: [...] > The flexibility that I wanted was the reading of tu- > ples of user-supplied cardinality into arrays. I > did assume the data was machine-generated and opti- > mised for reading speed by means of fixed-width num- > bers. This allowed me to jump from one number to > the next instead of scanning through the intervening > whitespace. [...] You seem to go to some effort to make all lines in your articles have the same length. In my opinion, this hurts readability. Words are split across lines unnecessarily, and double spaces are arbitrarily inserted between some words. I suggest you don't bother. I find this: > The flexibility that I wanted was the reading of tuples of > user-supplied cardinality into arrays. I did assume the data > was machine-generated and optimised for reading speed by means > of fixed-width numbers. This allowed me to jump from one number > to the next instead of scanning through the intervening whitespace. more readable. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"