>   (1) look at the "}";
>   (2) move your focus to the white space preceding it;
>   (3) move your focus up over WHITE space until you see
>       BLACK;
>   (4) you are looking at the keyword!

  This is not as easy with several nested code blocks. If there's a lot if
white space at *both* sides of the column you are looking at, it can be more
difficult to see which of the lines is at the same indentation level as the }.

> /* typical Pascal indentation */
> if Condition then             begin
>     DoThis
>     DoThat                    end
>   else                        begin
>     DoOther
>     DoMore                    end;

> Perfectly aligned AND readable, isn't it? :))

  Nope. The indentation is not logical. Some blocks are indented with 2 spaces
and others with 4 spaces. There's no consistency. The 'else' is not inside
of the 'if' block, but is at the same level, thus indenting it more than the
'if' is ilogical.
  With a simple example there's no confusion, but make 4 nested if-then-elses
and it begins to be quite a lot more confusing.

  Indentation should be logical, consistent and easy to understand.
Indenting one thing in one way and another thing in another way, and
specially indenting in a way that several nested blocks make the code
confusing is not good.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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