From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T12:59:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Comment for partial line

On Behalf Of Xia __:
# i dont want to turn this thread into a debate about 
# programming design, 
# i just want to know if ruby offers a fairly simple syntax 
# function which is available in many languages.


the ff is just a kludge. i enclose them text inside single quotes, or %< >, or %<-- -->

irb(main):041:0> print "Hello, "; 'this wont run; puts "NO!"'; print "world\n"
Hello, world
=> nil
irb(main):042:0> print "Hello, "; %<this wont run; puts "NO!">; print "world\n"
Hello, world
=> nil
irb(main):046:0> print "Hello, "; %<--NONONO!-->; print "world.\n"
Hello, world.
=> nil

Hey, about an rcr, use "--" or "++" as inline commenters :))

But sincerely, i have a phobia of inline comments. I once had a bug that took me a day (24hrs) to find because of a very slick inline comment i inserted... arrghh.. but that was then. Now, unit test/tdd/bdd/rspec/ioc rocks. no fear :)

kind regards -botp