From: mjl@... (Martin J. Laubach)
Date: 2001-07-04T23:01:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17235] Re: /* */ comments

|  One note, I would prefer if begin comment and end comment token pairs could
|  be nested within each other as this allows substantially more flexibility
|  when you are using them to comment out large chunks of code which may
|  contain other comments.

  Which brings us to some kind of preprocessor, doesn't it?

	#if 0
		blabla to be commented out
	#if ADDITIONAL_DEBUGGING_STUFF
		more blabla
	#endif
	#endif

  It doesn't need to be as featureful of the C macro facility, but
a simple nestable if/else/end could be useful.

	mjl