Comments in between multi-line variable assignments should validate

[unfulvio]

Suppose you have:

// group 1

$foo        = 1;
$barbaz     = 'variable';
$boo        = null;
$anothervar = new \stdClass();

// group 2

// some comment about $foo
$foo        = 1;
// some comment about $barbaz
$barbaz     = 'variable';
$boo        = null;
// some comment about $anothervar
$anothervar = new \stdClass();

With the current PHPCS ruleset group 1 would pass but group 2 would not and generate errors.

In my opinion this should be legal for single line small comments to exist in a multi-line group.

I am not sure though that this would be supported by a PHPCS rule. Probably not? Maybe we could turn off spaces before equals sign or set to severity 0. The thing is this pattern often exists in our codebase (for example here). If we have a reason why we allow and like the alignment in group 1, we should allow here as well.

By the way this would also apply to values assignment in arrays:

$my_array = [
	'id'       => 0,
	// some comment about this key:
	'name'     => 'Foo',
    // some comment about this other key
	'location' => 123,
	'etc'      => null,
];