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From: Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org>
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Subject: Re: Java blunders
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:37:30 +0200
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On 07/24/2014 11:37 AM, Silvio wrote:
>
> I disagree. Physical vertical space is scarcer than physical horizontal
> space but human beings are not good at reading wide block of text while
> they have no problem reading lots of lines of text.

Agreed on that.

> For that reason it is better to spread content vertically. Look at how
> websites center in a fixed width small portion of the screen and then
> flow vertically or how newspapers use narrow columns of text on large
> (wide) enough paper.
>
> For that same reason an extra line that contains a single structure
> marking character puts a very small burden on the human eye while
> helping a lot in readability.

I disagree.
A single extra line for every structure spreads structures vertically.
Structures become visually larger, and less structures fit on the screen.
As the result, code readability declines, since the ability to find the 
right structure requires scrolling.
Big picture matters.

But it's matter of taste really.
We have nice IDEs, click braces this, click brackets that, click 
arrange, and done.

Regards...