<html><body><div><br></div><div><br>On Jan 27, 2013, at 09:11 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> wrote:<br><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div class="_stretch">There's been sporadic discussion every now and then about recommended <br> style etc. Time to add to it :o).<br> <br> I've noticed excessive empty lines in a few Phobos modules. For example:<br> <br> @property SysTime timeLastModified()<br> {<br> _ensureStatDone();<br> <br> return SysTime(unixTimeToStdTime(_statBuf.st_mtime));<br> }<br> <br> And so on for functions of 2-5 lines, and there's a bunch of them. It <br> would be difficult to argue that the vertical space adds to clarity as <br> the whole thing is just there.<br> <br> Can we agree to be a bit more sparing with empty lines? If there's one <br> resource that's not abundant to all of us, that must be vertical space.</div></div></blockquote><span><br>It don't understand the obsession in cutting down on vertical space. Are you afraid you're going to run out. It's not like we're writing on a physical piece of paper.<br><br>I think it adds clarity. Not using a few empty newlines here and there is like writing a piece of text without any paragraphs. It just makes it harder to read.<br><br>This particular example you give would make no difference with or without the empty newline.<br><br></span>--<br>/Jacob Carlborg<br></div></div></body></html>