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Parse multiline silent comments as unified blocks

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, scss
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by examining the parser's current handling of adjacent silent comment lines and compare it with the referenced Dart Sass logic in lib/src/parse/scss.dart, lines 144-163. Check the existing parser tests and add coverage showing that adjacent lines become one Comment object while separated comments remain distinct.

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Description

Currently this package parses each line of a silent //-style comment as a separate Comment object. In practice, users usually think of comments on adjacent lines as part of a single block, so it would be useful if this parser represented them as a single comment object. This would make downstream processing like documentation generation or https://github.com/stylelint/stylelint/issues/4886 easier as well.

Note: Dart Sass also internally represents adjacent (block-level) silent comment lines as a single object, so you can look to its parsing logic for inspiration.

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JavaScript
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