[racket-dev] style guide on blank lines

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Tue Mar 13 14:25:59 EDT 2012

On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> 
> 
> Okay. I am adding 
> 
> Don't pollute your code with spaces at the end of lines. 
> 
> If you find yourself breaking long blocks of code with blank lines to aid
> readability, consider refactoring your program to introduce auxiliary
> functions so that you can shorten these long blocks of code. If nothing
> else helps, consider using (potentially) empty comment lines. 
> 
> 
> ;; --- 
> 
> As soon as I have my racket back, I'll type set and release. 

I hate to suggest the obvious, but isn't it worth keeping a copy of the latest release--just downloaded from racket-lang.org---around for things like this? 

John

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