Clarify how Tokei counts blank lines inside comment blocks

[Luni-4]

Tokei counts blank lines inside comment blocks as blank lines. Wouldn't they be considered as comment lines?

For example:

/* Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Foo
   Copyright (C) 2008      Foo

   File: test.c
  
*/

Tokei output:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Language            Files        Lines         Code     Comments       Blanks
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 C                     1            6            0            4            2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Total                 1            6            0            4            2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In this case, Blanks should be 0, while Comments 6.

Thanks in advance for your clarification! :)

[foxpy]

What is the point of blank line inside of a comment? I believe it makes more sense to count these as blanks.

[Luni-4]

Yep, I agree with you, but I was just looking at that from a parent-child perspective. Since a blank line is inside a comment block, it is indeed a comment. Furthermore there are metrics, like the LOCbl, that count the number of blank lines in a file, but they exclude the blank lines inside a comment block because they are considered to be a comment line. That's why I'm asking for a clarification :)

[XAMPPRocky]

Thank you for your issue! I can definitely see the of why one could see it as comments in this case. I haven't really given much thought on whether it should be one or the other.

[Luni-4]

Thanks to you for accepting my issue!
In order to not break the current implementation, perhaps we could add a cli option, something like: --blank-as-comment-block

[XAMPPRocky]

I would be hesitant about making an option, I want to keep the amount of bespoke behaviour flags to a minimum. I would prefer to change the implementation if I was going to make a change.

[foxpy]

I really think that current implementation makes more sense. When counting the number of comment lines, I will possibly like to know how much of the comments are meaningful.