From: "luke-gru (Luke Gruber) via ruby-core" <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2023-04-03T15:14:56+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:113085] [Ruby master Feature#19567] Add Oxford Comma Support for better readability

Issue #19567 has been updated by luke-gru (Luke Gruber).


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 extendible but British people could turn it off.

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Feature #19567: Add Oxford Comma Support for better readability
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19567#change-102620

* Author: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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Ruby has regular commas:

```ruby
[a, b, c]
```

Ruby has trailing commas:
```ruby
[
 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:

```ruby
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)


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