Why not allow empty code blocks?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>> One less thing to be programmed, one less thing for the user to
>> remember. Just require pass any time you have an empty block, rather
>> than try to remember where it is required and were it is optional.
>
> Actually, the requirement of a dummy statement is a slight annoyance for
> the programmer. After deleting a statement, you must see if you have to
> put in a pass statement. And after adding a statement, you may feel the
> urge to remove the redundant pass statement.

How often do you actually need empty statements, adding stuff,
removing stuff, like that? Possibly there's a code smell here.

ChrisA