From: Zsban Ambrus <ambrus@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T22:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: why dosn't ruby support // to comment?

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 03:32:03PM +0900, Nobu Nakada wrote:
> > Hey, what abut REM? Now that's a real man's remark! :)
>   def rem(*) end
>   rem "this is a commet like as old command.com :)"

I did something similar to that in TeX once:

	\def \qc #1{}
	\qc{this is a comment}

so that I have multi-line comments.

Command.com actually has a much better mechanism for comments: it has goto
(moreover a computed goto) so you can make multi-line comments like this:

	goto comment1
	this is a comment
	I can write anything here
	:comment1

Note that most unix shells still don't have this feature (although tcsh has
it, with a slightly different syntax).

ambrus