From: "herwin (Herwin W) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2025-12-26T06:16:43+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:124367] [Ruby Bug#21808] Inconsistency in support of additional newlines with boolean logical operators on new line

Issue #21808 has been reported by herwin (Herwin W).

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Bug #21808: Inconsistency in support of additional newlines with boolean logical operators on new line
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21808

* Author: herwin (Herwin W)
* Status: Open
* ruby -v: ruby 4.0.0 (2025-12-25 revision 553f1675f3) +PRISM [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN, 3.4: UNKNOWN, 4.0: UNKNOWN
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With this I mean the new Ruby 4 feature.

With the old style, one could add additional lines in between:
```ruby
if true &&

   true
     puts 'match'
end
```
With the new style, this results in a syntax error
```ruby
if true

   && true
     puts 'match'
end
```
If a comment is used instead of a new line, it still works
```ruby
if true
   # blah
   && true
     puts 'match'
end
```
This happens with both prism and parse.y

I doubt anyone would want to write code like this (I don't think it improves the layout), but it's still a weird inconsistency that doesn't get mentioned.



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