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Report comment spans on parsed scripts - #10

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@nyaarium nyaarium commented Sep 6, 2026

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What

ParsedScript.comments: every comment the lexer skipped in that script, in source order, as { pos, end } spans from the # up to (not including) the newline. Absent when there are none, like errors. A shebang stays shebang and is not listed. Comments inside a lazily parsed substitution are on that nested script, again like errors.

Why

An indexer (nyaa-lexicon's Bash provider) wants comment spans from the same lexer that decided where a comment opens. Without this it needs a second scanner beside the parser to find them, which re-derives the quote and heredoc rules the lexer already has.

How

  • The lexer records the span at its one comment-skip site in readNext; the value scanners never see a comment.
  • parseArrayElements merges its sub-lexer's spans, since an array body is lexed when the assignment is parsed; the parser sorts once at the end so the list stays in source order.
  • Pre-scans that skip comments to find a closing paren keep their own throwaway lexer, so nothing is counted twice.

Tests

test/comments.test.ts: ordering, absence, end-of-input and CRLF ends, shebang, # inside words, quotes, ${x#pre} and heredoc bodies, compound commands and array bodies, nested substitution scripts, and error recovery. Format, lint, tsc and the full suite pass (1712).

Happy to rename the field or the type if you prefer another shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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nyaarium commented Sep 6, 2026

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ohh shoot. Sorry, the clanker decided to make these PRs. If you don't care for em, close it.

This one is feature creep nobody but me needed.

Sorry again.

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