Lack of vertical spacing in the output

[tpwo]

I think that vertical spacing is an important factor when talking about legibility of the code.

And I noticed that the current formatting completely removes every blank line, which makes some files hard to read, as the code is blended together.

My solution to this would be adding a blank line after every semicolon. This is a simple rule, but seems to make a big difference at first glance. There are at least two exceptions, though:

• Do not insert a blank line after line with within statement (as it looks a bit strange to have a blank line there. I need to check, but I think that Dymola would remove such blank line after saving a file).

• Do not insert a blank line after semicolons that are part of matrix notation (as having a blank line there would rather decrease readability).

  So this should be the desired output for matrices:

  parameter Integer[2,2] A = [
    1,2;
    3,4];

I've managed to find a way to achieve it, see PR #31

However, the current solution has one bug: it leaves two blank lines at the end of files that end with a semicolon.

I am also not sure about my approach, maybe there's a better way to achieve this output.

And also, what do you think about this idea? Maybe you strip the blank lines because of some concrete reason?

[macintoshpie]

I think you are right, having blank lines makes it much more legible. There wasn't really a reason why we remove all whitespace currently.

Thanks for the PR! I'll take a look at it soon when I get some time on my hands 😄