From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-02-11T17:49:34+09:00 Subject: Re: how to say # in ruby 2008/2/11, Gerry Ford : > Ben Bleything wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008, Gerry Ford wrote: > >> Do I have it right that any line that begins with a hash that isn't #! > >> is a comment, as well as the above? > > > > Yup! And technically #! is a comment as well, it's just a magical > > comment. > > > I'm not sure that I can agree with you, Ben. > What good's a comment if you have to say the right thing? I'm not sure what you're at here. You posted code from the Ruby interpreter but the magical bit of shebang is done by the shell or OS not Ruby. See for example: http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=de&q=+lang:c+package:kernel+%22%23!%22+show:BxIe8bIKbEg:X-2Nm3hrV4s:RaABaUcqtps&sa=N&cd=2&ct=rc&cs_p=http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.34.1.tar.bz2&cs_f=linux-2.4.34.1/fs/binfmt_script.c Kind regards robert -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end