From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-12-21T04:56:12+09:00
Subject: Re: block comment problem

Dave Bass wrote:
> Matz wrote:
>> "=begin" should start at the beginning of a line.  You cannot indent
>> them.
> 
> Any good reason for this?
> 
> I suppose it must be slower for Ruby to strip leading whitespace, but 
> only very slightly.
> 
> Why would I want to indent block comments? So they're at the same 
> indentation as the code I'm commenting. Keeps things neat and tidy. :-)

It might be because of this conflict:

x \
   =begin
     3/0
   rescue
     "div by 0"
   end

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