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[–] jvisick@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not who you asked but I think they’re important for humans, but syntactically I don’t think they should matter.

It should be ok to add a line break wherever it makes the code more readable, but I don’t think a compiler should care whether some code is all on one line or 10