From: "sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)" Date: 2013-02-04T11:24:08+09:00 Subject: [ruby-dev:46916] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7639] More freedom for location of comments Issue #7639 has been updated by sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada). > alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) Allowing a line to start with a period was a change introduced in Ruby 1.9. It is not what I am newly proposing here. If you are against it, that would be a claim against that feature introduced in the past. My proposal is, provided such feature was introduced, trying to make maximum sense out of it. ---------------------------------------- Feature #7639: More freedom for location of comments https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7639#change-35815 Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada) Status: Feedback Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: Next Major =begin When we chain methods with the period at the end of each line, we can put comments in between the lines: [1, 2, 3]. # First, we do blah blah method1. # Second, we do blah blah method2. =begin Third, the following line does this and that ... =end method3 but when we have the period at the beginning of the line, putting comments in similar positions returns an error: [1, 2, 3] # First, we do blah blah .method1 # Second, we do blah blah .method2 =begin Third, the following line does this and that ... =end .method3 # => Error It is confusing that putting comments between lines in a method chain is sometimes allowed and sometimes not. I think it would be convenient if comments are allowed in these positions even when the following line starts with a period, and I request this as a feature. Currently, it returns an error, which means that, if such syntax were allowed, there would be no conflict with the existing syntax. Furthermore, putting the period at the beginning of a line is suited for method chains because the period will visually work as bullets, and it makes more sense to have comments right before those lines. =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/