From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2001-07-04T13:21:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17210] Re: /* */ comments

Stephen White wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Over on http://www.rubygarden.org, dv posted a patch to parse.y that
> > adds support for /* .. */ comments in Ruby.
> >
> > Waddya think? Good idea? Rebarbative C-ism?
> 
> Rebarbative. With "#", comment blocks are easy enough already.
> 
>   # This is a comment block
>   # which is very long and
>   # doesn't say much
> 
> vs
> 
>   /* This is a comment block
>      which is very long and
>      doesn't say much */
> [snip...]
> 
> The "#" just looks plain better. :)

Sure. Though the question is always, what do we give up in order to make
some people more comfortable; sometimes it's considerable, but in this
case I don't think so.  Since what /*...*/ gives is a way to mark a
comment block by its ends instead of continuously, it kind of duplicates
=begin...=end, but I think the latter is being discouraged for non-RD
use (right?) so /*...*/ is okay with me.

Crazy thought: how would /#...#/ be instead?

  Mark