<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><div class="h5"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">In my experience, aligning columns in large tables reduces maintence</span><br></div></div>
cost by making it much easier/faster to see what you've got and by<br>
providing a way to visually "prompt" you for the correct value in the<br>
correct place when you add new lines.<br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br>Works great until one of the values changes in size. Say:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>bla = (<br>....1.0, 1.1, 1.2,<br>
....2.0, 2.1, 2.2,<br>....3.0, 2.1, 3.2,<br>)<br><br>And one day you have to change '2.1' to '2.09999':</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>bla = (<br>....1.0, 1.1, 1.2,<br>....2.0, 2.09999, 2.2,<br>....3.0, 2.1, 3.2,<br>
)<br><br>If this happens more than once ( or twice, because I'm patient =)), maintaining the alignment becomes a chore. So I only align columns if I'm typing a table I know won't change.</div><br clear="all"><div>
<br></div>-- <br>Marcelo Mallmann Dias<br>
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