From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-06T03:56:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17336] Re: /* */ comments

Hello --

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Over on http://www.rubygarden.org, dv posted a patch to parse.y that
> adds support for /* .. */ comments in Ruby.
>
> Waddya think? Good idea? Rebarbative C-ism?


After reading and participating in the blitz of comment-ary on this, I
tend to conclude that /* */ in Ruby is a solution in search of a
problem.

Here's a very boiled-down version of the case against, at least as I
see it:

1. Ruby already has various ways to bracket out blocks of code for
   debugging purposes.

2. Comments should be shortish anyway.  If comments are really so long
   that they require /* */, then either the code should be clarified
   or those comments should really be part of the rd documentation
   (and thus not in /* */ or even # form).


(Boiled-down enough? :-)


David

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