Am I not seeing the Error?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> I can't quite sort out the multiple quoting levels, but somebody said:
>
>>>> Programming like that is called trolling. A programmer that uses
>>>> trolling is called a troll. A troll can also refer to such a line
>>>> of code itself. My scripts contain a lot of trolls. It is easier
>>>> for me to read trolls than "typical" coding styles.
>
> Please tell me this is all just an elaborate joke.

I was thinking something similar Roy.  Devyn, you may think you code
differently, but you don't.  You have a half of dozen people trying to
show you how your style causes confusion between what you think you
are writing and what you actually coded.  There is plenty of room in
coding for personal expression, but what you call 'trolling' is not
that.  If you like semicolons, use another language that needs them.
I think you think it is some version of premature optimization.  Since
you are a novice at the language, stick with the standards, and learn
to embrace them.  Ultimately standard coding styles has nothing to do
with code optimization.  It has to do with readability.  Although this
is a small example, you can see that if several people get involved
debugging it, the first thing that gets in the way is your
non-standard coding style.  If you want to code alone your whole life,
do as you like.  But the time spent reading and fixing code in the
lifetime of any useful software system is greater than the time spent
creating the original code.
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