[thelist] The Excercise of Elegance

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank
> 
> What are some of the things that you do in order to make your code 
> more elegant, that is, briefer, more concise and clearer?

whenever i revisit it, i take a quick look through and see if maybe it needs refactoring... i also 
keep in mind things i did that could probably be done more efficiently if i knew how... like some 
of my functions...

> One of my aims is to always write code that not only accomplishes the 
> purpose in the least amount of steps, but that is very easy for a 
> stranger to come up and understand my code.

for that, i comment heavily... the documentation exists on the project development, but the inline 
comments really help... many of my HTML pages and server-side scripts are littered with code 
that some find pointless or redundant if you can see the code... but for those who are brand 
new, it can be a great help...