Code density

j_mckitrick j_mckitrick at bigfoot.com
Thu Jun 17 20:55:55 EDT 2004


Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message > Blank lines are a readability tool as much as clear indentation is.
> Depending on the definition of "sparingly", this may be the one
> piece of Guido's advice that we've ever ignored... :-)

I've found myself using even more blank lines in python than C++.  But
if you look at BitTorrent, for example, the author claims blank lines
are a nuisance.  He writes very dense code, but I wonder if it would
be easily maintainable by anyone besides him.


jonathon



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