From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T20:09:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17285] Re: /* */ comments

Hello --

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Michael Neumann wrote:

> Has someone told, that we have already something like
> multiline comments?
>
> Just make the piece of code you want to comment out
> a string with %{ .... }. It's also possible to nest them.
>
> For example Python users often use this (with """ thus not nestable),
> especially for documenting classes/methods.
>
> The only problem I can see is that if it occurs at the end of a method/block
> it's taken as return value.


The other problem is that then you have strings lying around out of
context:

  def thing
  end

  %{
  def other_thing
  end
  }

=>
  comments.rb:6: warning: useless use of a literal in void context
  Syntax OK

unless of course you assign it to a variable, which then raises
other issues.


David

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