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Strange ruby bug: can't put comment after linebreak in method args. Tested in 2.3.2.
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1-works_fine.rb
def foo \
a: 'a',
# comment here is ok
b: 'b'
puts a, b
end
foo(a: 'a', b: 'b') # => a\nb
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2-broken.rb
def foo \
# comment here causes error
a: 'a',
b: 'b'
puts a, b
end
foo(a: 'a', b: 'b')
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apeiros commented Nov 28, 2016

I see what you mean. Yeah, makes sense to allow \ to skip comments. Especially since you can't use \ in a comment to further continue.

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