[racket-dev] style guide on blank lines

From: Michael W (mwilber at uccs.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 14 11:45:27 EDT 2012

)))

21 hours ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> 
> :-((( -- 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
> > 
> 

-- 
Listenin,
    _mike

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