On 2022-05-16, at 6:30 PM, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
No ultra-strong opinion here, but in general, comments are an inherent part of Smalltalk. As code and comments tell a shared story together, I'm not convinced by separating both from each other even more. Italic has a "virtual", "artificial", or "auxiliary" connotation to me, as opposed to "normal" or "real" code.
Interesting, this is actually why I use italic for comments. It's human-speak, whereas the upright code speaks to the computer. Italics is often used in writing for referring to external quotations, which enhance the thing being written about. It seems like a perfect fit, to me.
Yup. And quite a lot of us are likely to be somewhat red/green colour blind too. Multiple signalling is a good thing.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Homeopathy: Logic diluted, to make it stronger....