Vertical bar "for paragraph breaks outside of quoted text"

Authoring Inform 7
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I just noticed this in WI §2.3. Punctuation:

Inform […] also has the more exotic “|” (not a capital I, a vertical stroke) for paragraph breaks outside of quoted text

…and I have no idea what a paragraph break outside of quoted text even means. Anyone?

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I believe a paragraph break means 2 line break in a row, so this

Every turn:
    say "A";

Every turn:
    say "B";

should be equivalent to this?

Every turn:
    say "A";|Every turn:
    say "B";

But it causes an error in 6L38. I seem to recall it worked once though. Or I may be mistaken.

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That seems to be it – with a space after the ‘|’ it works in 6G60.

Lab is a room.

Every turn:
    say "A";| Every turn:
    say "B";
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Well, this works even without the vertical bar.

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True. But with the ‘|’ it also works without the ‘;’ or a ‘.’ (in 6G60).

Lab is a room.

Every turn:
    say "A"| Every turn:
    say "B";
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