What is the proper way to format code?

Question

When I write code, I try to group lines of similar code together, then leave a blank line and write another block.

I believe this contributes to the neatness and readabi

Answer 1

I've just been working on some code that goes in the opposite direction; each statement is separated from the next by a blank line. The authors also liked to use four lines of comment right aligned at column 60 instead of a one-line comment indented at code level. It is hard to read, and tedious to fix. Another feature of the code (C code), the break from a previous case is 'attached' to the case of the next, but there's a blank line after the case, separating it from its code. Ick!

Blank lines around blocks of code are good. Not having too many blocks of code in a single function is good. Blank lines around every line of code is unpleasant. Too much, or too little, of a good thing is a bad thing.