Henrik --
At 8:25 AM -0800 6/8/00, Henrik Gedenryd wrote:
(To be fair, let me just remind you that I've already displayed my bias against changing the syntax as a help for novices :-)
I remember ...
A fundamental problem with Dan's alternate syntax (that Mats already mentioned in passing) is that code in comments doesn't work. This may not sound so bad until you try this in use. Effectively it means that all example code in comments become more or less useless (unless it spuriously parses identically in the new syntax).
Well, another confession of mine is that "code" should be in one of possibly several fonts that is marked "code" -- in which case your problem vanishes and things are better in general.
And wrt color: Here, less is more than ever ;-)
| | Typographic guidelines for use of color: | | 1. Don't. | 2. Goto 1. |
I agree, except for: 1.5 Try some of the intermediate grays ... 1.6 Don't try to highlight a lot of different things ...
Cheers,
Alan