I would probably want to hit you with a baseball bat if I had to spend any time reading your code with my monospaced font. At least for the type of code that I work in that lends itself to code alignment.
> I would probably want to hit you with a baseball bat if I had to spend any time reading your code with my monospaced font.
Well, that's a good way to get a head start on the "hell or purgatory" thing, isn't it! :-)
I'm not saying every kind of code is suited for a proportional font. If you use ASCII art, or if you are writing out two-dimensional matrices or the like, a monospaced font will serve you better.
The kind of casual and unnecessary column alignment in my first example is what I was talking about. The second (indented) example is perfectly readable in either a monospaced or proportional font. So if you run across it you hopefully won't need your baseball bat.
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