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[–] 59 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Very strong opinions for something entirely subjective and endlessly configurable.

I failed the question about remembering what colour my class definitions were, but you know what? I don't care. All I want is for it to be visually distinct when I'm trying to parse a block of code

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I failed the question about remembering what colour my class definitions were, but you know what? I don’t care. All I want is for it to be visually distinct when I’m trying to parse a block of code

    Between multiple IDEs, text editors, diff viewers and editors, and hosted tools like MR/review diff, they're not even consistently just one thing. For me, very practically and factually. Colors differ.

    As you point out, they're entirely missing the point. What the colors are for and how they're being used.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, if I want to know what the colour is to find other instances of that thing easier, it takes 2 seconds to determine the colour. But I can't remember ever actually doing that.

    That retunr typo will be caught by the compiler. That's what pass 1 is pretty much for, spell and syntax check.

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