From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T23:06:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17300] Re: /* */ comments

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. 
>
>Regards,
>
>  Michael
> 
>

Should note here that when you use %{...} some processing of the 
"comment" string does occur.

----------
x = 1

%{
stuff commented out
might include something like
#{x=x+1}
end of comment...
}

x     #->  2

----------

%q{...} is safe though.


 -- Mark