[racket-dev] style guide on blank lines

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 13 14:29:21 EDT 2012


:-((( -- Matthias, deeply depressed 





On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:25 PM, John Clements wrote:

> 
> 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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