Re:Stop ‘Using’ “Useless” ‘“‘Quotes’”’
by posix_me_less on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:41PM
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"I'd rather do busywork maintaining my code to conform to an ideal of quoted uniformity than be forced to think whether those quotes are of any benefit to me or to the reader."
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Re:Stop ‘Using’ “Useless” ‘“‘Quotes’”’
by renewiltord on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:47PM
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Seems reasonable. Eliminating decision making for trivial things is pretty empowering. Likewise I don't indent my code myself. I just always accept IDE indent specified in config file which isn't always optimal.
1. HTML is read by parsers 99.9% of the time. Rare is the human who cares to “View Source” on a site.
2. If you have a decent editor, those quotes are inserted automatically, so no busywork required.
Re:Stop ‘Using’ “Useless” ‘“‘Quotes’”’
by posix_me_less on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:13AM
(#23937708)
1. Parsers don't care. Humans do. 99.9% of time spent reading the html source is spent by humans, because they are so much slower than browsers. 2. I don't know what "decent" means in this context. Automatic code/quote insertion is wrong when I do not want them. It leads to less readable code.