Re: Literate Programming

[Erik Meijer]

This one of the reasons why I never use literate programming. I always
forget the blank lines, and then after being puzzled by the error, I
remember it, and get completely turned off.

>   C  Literate comments
>   [...]
>   To capture some cases where one omits an ">" by mistake,
>   it is an error for a program line to appear adjacent to a
>   non-blank comment line, where a line is taken as blank if
>   it consists only of whitespace.