From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T23:23:46+09:00
Subject: Re: why dosn't ruby support // to comment?

Hi,

"Zsban Ambrus" <ambrus@math.bme.hu> writes:

> 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).

: <<'COMMENT'
this is a comment
I can write anything here
COMMENT

-- 
eban