From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-13T05:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: utilizing ++ and -- for comments

Hi --

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> "George  Moschovitis" <george.moschovitis@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Why do you guys always propose comment syntaxes of icky languages?
>> }:-)
>>
>> well, anything instead of =begin, =end!!
>>
>> -g.
>
> How about
>
> <<-COMMENT
> foozle
> COMMENT

laptop:~$ ruby -w
<<E
blah
E
-:1: warning: useless use of a literal in void context


You could of course assign to something.  It might start looking weird
though.

(I'm not suggesting prolonging the process of finding alternatives to
what we've got now, though.)


David
-- 
David A. Black
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