From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T06:18:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17246] Re: /* */ comments

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

> But might there not be cases where we wanted to 
> comment some "arbitrary" piece of code... one
> that could not be placed standalone inside an
> if statement? After all, syntax is checked inside
> an if, but not inside a comment...

True, and I'm not necessarily against /* .. */ (as long as they nest
properly and don't get in the way of other syntax). I quite like
%#{ ... } (as there's already a precedent for the syntax).  However, I
_am_ against any kind of pre-processor - I think that would be evil.

Dave