From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2005-02-12T23:00:48+09:00
Subject: Re: utilizing ++ and -- for comments

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:47:03 +0900, "Pe�a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
> Since ++ and -- wont see the light of day in ruby, can we use it for comment
> notation?
> 
> define:
> 1. -- equal to # comment
> 2. --- (or more dashes) equal to =begin
>    next --- (or more) equal to =end
> 3. ++ same comment as #1 above
> 4. +++ same comment as #2 above
> 

I would like to see a multi-line that can nest other multi-line
comments. useful for quick and dirty code changes.

--- Disable this entire section
    --- My other section that holds
        important documentation.
    ---
    code ... ... 
---

so this is a problem. Lua has some interesting comments. They are ugly
but they have some nice uses. see http://www.lua.org/pil/1.3.html
(bottom half). Any ideas how we could clean it up a bit? I like the
single hyphen toggle.

Brian.