From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-04T14:42:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17218] Re: /* */ comments

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:17217] Re: /* */ comments"
    on 01/07/04, Daniel <daniel@longbeach.goldinc.com> writes:

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

=begin and =end are rather for documentation.  I don't recommend to
use them as multi line comments (e.g. to escape out chunk of code).
If you really need that kind of multi line comment, I'm really open
for discussion, or RCR.

							matz.