Comment by KevinMS

Hate the padded block rule with a passion.

Maybe I'm weird but one of the greatest things about gofmt is that it doesn't murder "padded blocks", like so many formatters out there.

For example, given this

    func main() {

       fmt.Println("a")
       fmt.Println("b")


       fmt.Println("c")
       fmt.Println("d")

    }

gofmt will simply collapse the double line in the middle.

However, this tool will do this

    func main() {
      fmt.Println("a")
      fmt.Println("b")

      fmt.Println("c")
      fmt.Println("d")
    }

How is having chunks of code smashed into the tops and bottoms of a blocks good for improving readability? Why should the visual relationship between and main() and "a" be stronger than between "b" and "c" if the author doesn't want it?