From: Loren Segal <lsegal@...>
Date: 2010-12-28T19:56:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33957] Re: Multi-line comments



On 12/28/2010 5:41 AM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:
>  On 28-12-2010 01:54, Joshua Ballanco wrote:
>> Do "=begin" and "=end" not work for you?
>
> These are not meant to be used as a multi-line comment, but to 
> generate documentation instead.

=begin/=end aren't specific to documentation, they just happen to be 
processed by documentation tools (RDoc, YARD). Keep in mind that regular 
"#" comments are processed by documentation tools as well, so there's 
actually no difference here even if they were "documentation specific".

The only *real* difference is that you have to align the keywords to the 
beginning of the line, which can be visually ugly if you're using these 
multi-line comments for something more than temporary comment-out-ing.

- Loren