From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-06T12:19:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17373] Re: /* */ comments

Hello --

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Chris Moline wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:51:52AM +0900, Daniel wrote:
[ > > Guy Hurst wrote: ]
> > > Secondly, for nesting. I have had this issue myself. Even though
> > > I use RD's =begin/=end for debugging, I have found myself doing
> > > some acrobatics to get around the fact that they don't nest.
> %q{ ... } nests.
>
> > I added nested comment support to that little bit that I did.
> i think that we could all just use %q{ }.

See [ruby-talk:17279] and [ruby-talk:17285] on %{}; also
[ruby-talk:17304] on the drawbacks of a syntactic solution.

Also, try putting a %q{} around this:

  def thing
    puts "I have a thing about the '}' character."
  end

:-)

I like #{} or %#{}, which have a nice Ruby look but wouldn't
(presumably) have all the problems of %{} and friends.


David

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