[ ruby-Bugs-5740 ] RDOC doesn't show string "#" or "\#"

Bugs item #5740, was opened at 2006-09-13 04:55
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Category: Standard Library
Group: 1.8.4
Status: Open
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 2
Submitted By: Peter de Kraker (peturrr)
Assigned to: Eric Hodel (drbrain)
Summary: RDOC doesn't show string  "#" or "\#"

Initial Comment:
I am working with musical signs like "#".
In a method this "#" is assigned to a variable by default.
like: 

Def foo(bar = "#")
end

In RDOC this shows up as:

foo(bar = "


When bar = "\#"
it shows up as:

foo(bar = "\


The method just works, but RDOC mistakinly filters it out as a comment or something. 





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Comment By: Daniel Berger (djberg96)
Date: 2007-05-25 08:22

Message:
I think this is a difficult exception to handle. But, rather than forcing people to use escapes in their code just so RDoc will pick it up properly (which doesn't work right now anyway), I vote that any '#' sign surrounded by quotes be interpreted literally.

I'll see if I can whip up a patch today.

Dan

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