Why not allow empty code blocks?

[BartC]

On 03/08/2016 13:36, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There he comes waddling in… Your  cute-n-cudly strawman!!
>> A more realistic analogy would be phones
>> The cellphones we use today often crash
>> The first nokia I used never crashed but could still run out of battery
>> And the round-dial landlines of 30 years ago had not even that problem
>
> 1986? Yeah, we had a phone from then (granted, I don't remember much
> of 1986, but we had the same handsets in the 1990s), and it could run
> out of battery and lose its phone book.

He said landlines. A typical handset would have no battery as it's 
powered from the line. And does not have need a memory to function. Nor 
would it suffer from lack of signal. Or credit (if you'd paid the last 
bill). Or get lost (as it's tethered to the socket).

Very clunky technology but it was solid! It only did one thing but it 
did it incredibly well.

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Bartc