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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:31:23 +0100
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Pascal Obry wrote:
> Simon Wright a �crit :
> 
>> What do you have against double blank lines? Triple blank lines, now
>> that would be eeeevil.
> 
> They convey no information.

They can indicate a major block. For example in Matt's AI 302
implementation, there are blank lines between many executable
statements. There are two blank lines between most, if not all,
subprograms.