From: Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T22:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Block comments syntax

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:22 +0900, mathew wrote:
> 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.

Well if you want to temporarily get rid of a large number of lines,
block comments are much, much quicker than doing a line comment for each
and every line. I don't tend to leave block comments in the app though
-- just during development I find them useful.

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