From: Asfand Yar Qazi <ay1204@...2s.com>
Date: 2005-02-13T15:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: utilizing ++ and -- for comments

Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 13. Feb 2005, 05:45:00 +0900 schrieb David A. Black:
> 
>>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!!
> 
> 
> Commenting out code in C is normally done with `#if 0',
> `#endif' what isn't really shorter.
> 
> 
>>>How about
>>>
>>><<-COMMENT
>>>foozle
>>>COMMENT
>>
>>laptop:~$ ruby -w
>>-:1: warning: useless use of a literal in void context
> 
> 
> Maybe you like the METAFONT way:
> 
> def gobble ( str = nil) end
> 
> gobble {
>   code_that_was_commented_out
>   syntax_highlighting_is_applied
> }
> 
> gobble %{
> Text that was commented out.
> }
> 
> Bertram
> 

MUHAHAHA Ruby had multi-line comments all along :-)