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Enforce proper spacing for declarations with comments

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Metadata

ID: kotlin-code-style/comment-declaration-spacing

Language: Kotlin

Severity: Notice

Category: Code Style

Description

Declarations with comments should be separated by a blank line to improve readability of code.

Non-Compliant Code Examples

// some comment 1
bar()
/*
 * some comment 2
 */
foo()
// some comment 1
bar()
/*
 * some comment 2
 */
foo()
// testing 1
/*
 * some comment 2
 */
foo()

Compliant Code Examples

// some comment 1
bar()

/*
 * some comment 2
 */
foo()
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