<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Michael Foord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 14/04/2010 16:48, Ralf Gommers wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font color="#888888">
The vertical whitespace vs tags is a taste issue, I agree, from a
developer perspective. From a user perspective however, the numpy
standard is clearly more readable in a terminal. That's why it looks
the way it does. And reading docstrings in a terminal is not a fringe
use case by the way.<br>
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I would say that reading docstrings in a terminal is the *main* use
case - but that is why I tend to value the vertical space highly and
personally prefer the less verbose way.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>You're a core developer (I think). But for the *average* user, do you really think tags are fine? Earlier in this thread there was a mention of people that love to read XML. I'm exaggerating a bit of course, but this is similar. Whitespace beats tags for readability.<br>
<br>Ralf<br><br></div></div>