From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T10:05:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17261] Re: /* */ comments

I surely don't want to offend anyone, but this thread is like dozens of 
others that are merely about "syntactic suger" and other such sweets.  

One common reason for pushing such changes is that it makes it look like 
another language and will therefore bring in hordes of converts; as if anyone 
with a brain would change programming paradigms merely because the language 
looked superficially like what they already know.

A second common reason is that apparently many users of Ruby feel every click 
of the keyboard as excruciating pain, and would therefore prefer any change 
that would save them a keystroke or two.

Personally, I am a minimalist;  And would like to propose a five year 
moratorium on changes to Ruby.  Please, let  me learn all of the current 
features with all of their combinations, permutations and consequences, 
before "enhancing" the language out from under me.

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 22:34, you wrote:
> Over on http://www.rubygarden.org, dv posted a patch to parse.y that
> adds support for /* .. */ comments in Ruby.
>
> Waddya think? Good idea? Rebarbative C-ism?
>
>
> Dave