From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T23:45:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17322] Re: /* */ comments

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:13:46PM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> If we're definitely going in that direction (as opposed to something
> like #{...} or %#{...}), would /# #/ be possible?  I think it would
> harmonize better visually than /* */.

A few days ago, I posted about the language-dev mailing list which
claimed that many similar languages were spending a lot of time
discussing the same issues. Well, looks like I was right! :) For details
of what happened when we had this argument for Perl 6, have a look at

    http://dev.perl.org/rfc/5.html
    http://dev.perl.org/rfc/102.html
    http://dev.perl.org/rfc/325.html

as well as the archives of the multiline comment working group list
at
    http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language-mlc@perl.org/

Hope this is useful.

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