From: Sean Chittenden <sean-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T07:19:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17251] Re: /* */ comments


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> Over on http://www.rubygarden.org, dv posted a patch to parse.y that
> adds support for /* .. */ comments in Ruby.
>=20
> Waddya think? Good idea? Rebarbative C-ism?

<engineering hat>
	While Perl and shell have been able to work/gimp along for years
with just single line comments via #, I don't see any reason to not
allow multi line comments.  Being able to nest multi line comments would
truly be ideal and has huge geek appeal as well as practical appeal.
</engineering hat>

<ruby advocacy hat>
	In the interests of making this language more appealing to the
masses (C and Java folk), I'd highly encourage this patch to be
committed.
</ruby advocacy hat>

	Given some of the other comments, I have yet to see a real
reason not to have this committed.  Any thoughts Matz?

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Sean Chittenden

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