definition - Method: the means by which something is done.
method is as method does.   ;-]
KB-

Ken wrote:

> Margus Ramst wrote:
>
> > OK, have it your way. But tell me, what method do you use to keep track of
> > the matching braces, unions within unions etc - all in one line? I must
> > admit I simply couldn't do it.
> >
> > Margus
>
> Since you asked for it...
>
>   Perhaps there in lies the problem er I mean difference between
> our different implementations of writing code. I presume that you
> have some formal education in a programming environment. I on the
> other hand have not had that influence thrust upon me. Therefore I
> have no methods. Where no methods are employed no method is needed
> to maintained it. I just simply write code as if I were sending a
> letter to a close friend. I read and write it from left to right
> and top to bottom. It makes perfect sense to me and I cannot imagine
> doing it any other way except when I have to communicate it to
> someone else who is too rigidly structured to see it any other way.
>
>   Another possibility is that I have the advantage of being a left
> handed person who is forced to live in a right hand dominate world.
> Everything ever made for operation by hand was optimized for the
> convenience of the right handers of the world. Even the written
> language, as written in the western world, is specifically stylized
> for right handed people.
>
>   Overcoming these many obstacles has given me unique opportunities
> for expanding my mental and physical capabilities, to compensate for
> the discriminatory policies that have been brought to bear against
> me, as a member of the left hand minority population of the world.
> I can often for example use either hand equally well in tasks a right
> handed person would never even consider. It is not an innate ability
> but one that has been precipitated by the need to survive in a
> backward world.
>
>   Given these challenges and the obstacles that I have overcome it is
> nothing for me to read code left to right and mentally keep track of
> where my curly braces are at the beginning and ending of an operation
> in my scene file. Several studies indicate that left handed people have
> better 3D adn 4d spatial perception, both in physical tasks and in the
> way they approach conceptual problem solving, than their right handed
> counter parts. This may be one form of it manifesting itself.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Steve wrote:
> I think you've raised an interesting point there, it would be
> interesting to ask the indenters and disdenters about their
> orientation when it comes to handidness.  It had never occurred

I'm right handed, and, in my case, disdenting is some kind of 
"way of life". Exemple : being architecture student, when doing
conception sketches, I tend to superpose the "views" : multiple
floor plans, cutaways,.. on the _same_ sheet, at the _same_ place;
this avoids me to be annoyed with multiple sheets, and distant 
drawings; of course, it's difficult for someone else to read
these drawings, but that's not their purpose...

Maybe I'm a disguised lefty ? I don't know, but I'm not diskelx,..
dixxilkk, dilskx, err,...

Cheers,
Fabien.

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I'm right handed, and I indent and am dyslexic, but I indent
everything, even a shopping list, eg, if I'm going to get say
five things in one shop and all the rest from individual shops,
the five items get indented.

Steve

Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:
> > I think you've raised an interesting point there, it would be
> > interesting to ask the indenters and disdenters about their
> > orientation when it comes to handidness.  It had never occurred
> 
> I'm right handed, and, in my case, disdenting is some kind of
> "way of life". Exemple : being architecture student, when doing
> conception sketches, I tend to superpose the "views" : multiple
> floor plans, cutaways,.. on the _same_ sheet, at the _same_ place;
> this avoids me to be annoyed with multiple sheets, and distant
> drawings; of course, it's difficult for someone else to read
> these drawings, but that's not their purpose...
> 
> Maybe I'm a disguised lefty ? I don't know, but I'm not diskelx,..
> dixxilkk, dilskx, err,...
> 
> Cheers,
> Fabien.

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