From: Doug Kearns <djkea2@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T07:45:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17256] Re: /* */ comments

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:01:43PM +0900, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> |  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?
 
I seriously hope not, yuck !

[snip...]

Regards,
Doug