From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-04T22:16:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17232] Re: /* */ comments

Hello --

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

   # {
       This might be one way
       to do it, without looking
       too C-like.
     }


David

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