From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T08:54:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24238] Re: inline comments, IDs

Tobias Reif wrote:
> 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?

It looks nicer and do not confuse the reader (I think my example above would).

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

yes, or 

  counter = "0000000000"     # any string
  counter.succ!

would do it, too (but probably slower ;-).

Regards,

  Michael

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