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The suggested transformations look nice for the trivial, tiny examples used, but would really hurt readability of code in general.

Code is not read linearly as a book - it is 'scanned' and reviewed back-and forth; and the compactness of the code is important for readability.

Also, on currently standard(sadly) computers, especially laptops, vertical space is very restricted in standard LCD dimensions. If you spread out a screen of semanically linked code to two screens, then you suddenly can't grasp it all at once w/o scrolling through the pages back and forth, and that is a real loss. Newlines and empty lines can and must be used to group things in "paragraphs", but the OP suggestions waste far too many lines.



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