From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-06-12T10:46:08-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03308] Re: about documentation

Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

> May I suggest that this be extended to "\n=begin <doctype>"..."\n=end"
> where <doctype> will be a keyword (RD, SGML, LaTeX, ...) to allow
> different document formats to be specified?  It would be up to each
> interpreter to ignore the ones it cannot handle.

Already does it: Ruby just looks for =begin/=end followed by a space
or newline.

Dave