Please point me to an objective measure of "readability" that holds for all people. And then demonstrate that your example is "literally" lower on that scale.
Readability was a term coined by people writing languages that are litterally unusable without an IDE to hide stuff when they render the source file to explain why refusing to learn languages with curly braces is sane.
Oh man.. that comment really hit deep. I'll never understand why people argue that it is "easier" to adopt invisible characters and exact tab positioning instead of just using braces or similar to mark the code blocks.
Drives me nuts because you really can only write code for those programs with an IDE that is prepared for the case. Try to edit the code directly from the github web interface and it won't compile.
Whoops, my initial intent was "without curly braces", since that's where most of the readability comments are from. I guess the comment works both ways, though.
> Drives me nuts because you really can only write code for those programs with an IDE that is prepared for the case.
Usually people have strict rules for that (e.g. pep8), and most text editors will do it for you with little configuration.