From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-01-14T22:33:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Irb documentation queries?

Benjamin J. Racine wrote:
> Would anyone be so kind as to tell me whether irb has a way of seeing 
> documentation strings in the source code (as in ipython)?

No, it's not possible. Although in Ruby the documentation is embedded in 
the source code, it's not something the interpreter/compiler really 
sees. There's an external tool you use to call up this documentation.
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