From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T10:12:47+09:00
Subject: Re: block comment problem

Hi,

In message "Re: block comment problem"
    on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:35:44 +0900, Dave Bass <davebass@musician.org> writes:

|Matz wrote:
|> "=begin" should start at the beginning of a line.  You cannot indent
|> them.
|
|Any good reason for this?

They're not part of regular syntax, so I want clearly mark as such.
Besides that, they were designed to be used for embedded documents a la
Perl at the very early stage of Ruby development, when we didn't have
RDoc yet.  I'd rather recommend to put # signs at the top of lines.

							matz.