From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T13:22:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Block comments syntax

Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> Incidentally, the =begin and =end syntax seems pretty cumbersome to me
> (compared to /* */ for instance). Is it like this because Ruby is so
> versatile and anything else would be difficult to parse?

Maybe it's like that because it's a facility you're not supposed to use; 
many people feel block comments are a bad idea. Personally, I only use 
them in languages which lack line comments.


mathew
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