{
  "context": "This criteria evaluates how well the engineer understands and implements the uglify-save-license package's approach to handling edge cases, specifically: consecutive license comment preservation, stateful cross-file processing, and multi-criteria decision logic for comment preservation.",
  "type": "weighted_checklist",
  "checklist": [
    {
      "name": "License regex pattern",
      "description": "Uses a regular expression similar to uglify-save-license's pattern to detect license-related keywords: /@preserve|@cc_on|\\bMIT\\b|\\bMPL\\b|\\bGPL\\b|\\bBSD\\b|\\bISCL\\b|\\(c\\)|License|Copyright/i or equivalent pattern with case-insensitive matching",
      "max_score": 15
    },
    {
      "name": "Bang comment detection",
      "description": "Correctly identifies and preserves block comments starting with '!' by checking comment.type === 'comment2' and comment.value[0] === '!'",
      "max_score": 10
    },
    {
      "name": "First-line preservation",
      "description": "Implements position-based detection to preserve comments on line 1 by checking comment.line === 1",
      "max_score": 10
    },
    {
      "name": "Stateful tracking variables",
      "description": "Maintains module-level or closure-scoped state variables to track: (1) previous comment line number (prevCommentLine or similar), and (2) current file being processed (prevFile or similar)",
      "max_score": 20
    },
    {
      "name": "Consecutive comment logic",
      "description": "Implements logic to preserve comments on consecutive lines when following a preserved license comment, by checking if current line equals previous preserved line + 1",
      "max_score": 20
    },
    {
      "name": "File boundary detection",
      "description": "Detects when switching between files by comparing comment.file with the tracked previous file, and resets state (prevCommentLine) when file changes",
      "max_score": 15
    },
    {
      "name": "State update mechanism",
      "description": "Updates prevCommentLine and prevFile state variables appropriately: sets prevCommentLine when preserving a comment, and updates prevFile to track the current file",
      "max_score": 10
    }
  ]
}