From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T08:37:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24232] Re: inline comments, IDs

Michael Neumann wrote:


> Do you think of a comment inside one line of code?


yep

This is not really
> possible. But you could do it as follows:
> 
> before:
>   3 + 4 + 5 + 5 - 4 - 5 
> 
> after:
>   3 + 4 + (%{5 + 5 - 4}; - 5)


OK


> Better is to copy the line and comment the duplicate out.


Why?

Then modify
> the other.



> Simply start with a string (or integer) of an arbitrary length (e.g.
> "dlkjddfdfd"), then each time you want to generate a new ID, simply call 
> aString.succ!


Just thought of that; a simple counter + ~
format("%09.0f", counter)

...


Thanks for all the good advice. I'm already excited about your book ;)

Tobi



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