Block quotes with a blank line between them get merged

[Jacob Rus]

Michel Fortin wrote:

> I'm not sure if John opposes the two blank lines rule or not; what I'm 

> sure is that he opposes taking into account the invisible indentation of 

> these blank lines into account. And I agree with that position.


The current rule is that code blocks start with four spaces or one tab 
of indentation.  If a line has nothing but four spaces or a tab, that 
unambiguously suggests that the line should be an empty line in a code 
block.  But equally, two completely blank lines, without any spaces at 
all, could quite unambiguously define the end of an environment such as 
a code block.

But I posit that this is really a non-issue, as there is almost no use 
for multiple consecutive code blocks with no commentary in between.  I 
have never seen such a pattern used, and if in the one time in a million 
it comes up, the user needs to examine the whitespace in detail to 
figure out which is intended, I don't think it's worth adding an (ugly) 
extra syntax to fix.

-Jacob