Blank Lines

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Best Practice

Do not use blank lines at the beginning or end of any functions, after BEGIN, before END, or inside multiline expressions.

Bad code

PROCEDURE MATRIX_OnDrillDown@1133(MATRIX_ColumnOrdinal : Integer);
BEGIN

    SetupDrillDownCol(MATRIX_ColumnOrdinal);
    DrillDown(FALSE,ValueType);

END;

Good code

PROCEDURE MATRIX_OnDrillDown@1133(MATRIX_ColumnOrdinal : Integer);
BEGIN
    SetupDrillDownCol(MATRIX_ColumnOrdinal);
    DrillDown(FALSE,ValueType);
END;

Bad code

IF NameIsValid AND

    Name2IsValid
THEN

Good code

IF NameIsValid AND
    Name2IsValid
THEN

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Last modified August 11, 2025: Merge pull request #264 from microsoft/jeremy-siteops (f82dfd0) by Jeremy Vyska