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Add Oxford Comma Support for better readability

Added by tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson) 12 months ago. Updated 12 months ago.

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[ruby-core:113068]
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Ruby has regular commas:

[a, b, c]

Ruby has trailing commas:

[
 a,
 b,
 c,
]

But I think both of these are hard to read compared to the Oxford comma.
We should introduce the Oxford comma so that code is easier to read:

For example:

def foo a, b, and c
  [a, b, and c]
end

p foo(1, 2, and 3)

As an added bonus, this feature also makes specifying musical beats
quite natural, for example:

[1, and 2, and 3, and 4]

Just to make sure that everyone is pleased, you are allowed to mix the
Oxford comma with trailing commas like this:

[
  1,
  and 2,
  and 3,
  and 4,
]

Files

0001-Add-Oxford-Comma-support.patch (2.09 KB) 0001-Add-Oxford-Comma-support.patch tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson), 04/01/2023 05:26 AM

Updated by hurricup (Alexandr Evstigneev) 12 months ago

This looks a lot like perl. Moving towards normal-text-like programming language may be a dangerous way.
Looks nice, but feels scary and unnecessary.

Updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada) 12 months ago

why not , or too?

Updated by luke-gru (Luke Gruber) 12 months ago

What if there was a american_english: true magic comment that allowed this behavior? Then Ruby could support other English idioms and it would be extensible. Also British people could turn it off.

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