> if you see an extra line there you experience (I'm assuming) the minor irritation of skipping past "another obvious comment"
And losing the train of though on what I was thinking before reading the comment, most of the time.
> someone seeks enlightenment
That might mean that (a) I don't have fluency enough with the language yet, or (b) it's smelly code.
* If you read a comment and skip the code, smelly code might hide behind.
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