On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
On 14/04/2010 16:48, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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.
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.
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.