Collect comments for nodes about gherkin HOT 7 CLOSED

what is the use case for accessing comments ? to me, it would be weird to store comments in the AST being returned, given that comments are precisely meant to be ignored.

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Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I am attempting to write a documentation generator (mostly to create readable functional specs for stakeholders, testers and developers). There seem to be some based on Gherkin, but all windows based. I am using the behat gherkin library to parse the gherkin and for the documentation it would be helpful to have access to the comments.

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Well, couldn't you use the gherkin file itself for that ? It is meant to be readable by humans already.

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I think it would be fine for the testers and developers, but the concern is that it could be too detailed for the stakeholders. I definitely don't want to recreate a gherkin parser just to get comments hence this idea, but I just had the thought that since the behat/gherkin library returns the line numbers of each keyword, I could just write a separate class to pull out the comments.

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being too detailed for stakeholders depend of how you write your scenarios. I suggest you to look at the examples being used in http://everzet.com/post/99045129766/introducing-modelling-by-example

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Thanks I will take a look

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Great article by the way, thank you Stof for pointing me to it!!

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