"value":"\n <p>I recently saw a social media post that said something like \"Don't add blank lines within functions. They take up space and don't add anything\".<\/p>\n\n<p>I may have misremembered the exact wording, but that was the gist of it.<\/p>\n\n<p>I like to add blank lines within my functions to create and add separation between logical blocks of code.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whilst this doesn't add anything for a computer parsing and serving the code, or a CI pipeline performing checks, it makes the code easier for people to read and understand which, it my opinion, adds its own value - even if the functionality is the same.<\/p>\n\n ",
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"processed":"\n <p>I recently saw a social media post that said something like \"Don't add blank lines within functions. They take up space and don't add anything\".<\/p>\n\n<p>I may have misremembered the exact wording, but that was the gist of it.<\/p>\n\n<p>I like to add blank lines within my functions to create and add separation between logical blocks of code.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whilst this doesn't add anything for a computer parsing and serving the code, or a CI pipeline performing checks, it makes the code easier for people to read and understand which, it my opinion, adds its own value - even if the functionality is the same.<\/p>\n\n ",