From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T03:08:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17237] Re: /* */ comments

mjl@emsi.priv.at (Martin J. Laubach) writes:

> |  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

Wouldn't it be nice if you could use the same syntax for this as you
use to program the rest of the code?

   class Fred

     if DEBUGGING
       def trace
         puts a,b,c
       end
     else
       def trace; end
     end
   end

Oh, you can.


:)


Dave