Automattic / Automattic/harper
False positive for Oxford comma for pairs
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bug
false-positive
harper-core
linting
punctuation
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- Rust
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Description
**What got flagged?**
> It's A or B, B or C, D or E, or F or G. ■■ An Oxford comma is necessary here.
**Why is this incorrect?**
Expressions `A or B`, `B or C`, `D or E` and `F or G` are *self-contained*, and thus roughly equivalent to `W, Y, Y, or Z`.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the reported sentence and trace the Oxford-comma check that flags it. Confirm that the four paired expressions are treated as self-contained and that the false positive no longer appears, while existing Oxford-comma behavior remains covered.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100