asymmetric layout

[Barnacle Wes]

In article <1136 at PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, edw at IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>  In code segments that contain a lot of assigments, align the equal
> signs.  Example :
>     cosyaw = cos(rotate[YYAW]);
>     sinyaw = sin(rotate[YYAW]);
> 
> becomes:
> 
>     cosyaw              = cos(rotate[YYAW]);
>     sinyaw              = sin(rotate[YYAW]);
> 
> Easier to read no?

Whoops, you've slightly mis-spelled something there.  That last
sentence should read:

Easier to read?  No.

Code like this just crawls off the right side of the page too easily,
and in small, crowded listings, like a laser printer in landscape line
printer font, you have a hard time telling which variable is being
assigned to which expression.  Have you spent much time looking
through *LONG* assembler listings (I'm talking on the order of 1400
PAGES here) and trying to decide which comment goes with which line?
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