From: Daniel <daniel@...>
Date: 2001-07-04T14:24:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17217] Re: /* */ comments


I never used =begin =end yet,  but someone pointed out that they have to
be at the beginning of the line  *shrugs*    



					--
					DEV


On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Mark Slagell wrote:

> 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
>