Re: Re: Alignment Nazi?

Hello Avdi;

Given that lines of assembly are typically " op arg1' or 'op arg1,arg2' 
thus making alignment trivial, I am curious as to where the irony lies.

Being an APL (or J if I'm in the mood) programmer, I find that if the 
issue of alignment comes up in a given source, it is a smell of 
insufficient refactoring, much like the OO tyrant (I'm leery of using 
the N-word, too specific a reference.) said.

   a =: foo x
   b =: goo x

looks better to me as

   'a b' =: (foo;goo) x

Avdi Grimm wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Jeroen Wenting
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>>  Blame my ASM and Cobol origins, maybe.
>>     
>
> Ironic... assembly is the language where I've seen the most rigorous
> code alignment habitually practiced.
>
>   

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