From: Jan Berdajs <lists@...>
Date: 2013-04-26T00:24:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby multiline comments and Coffee

In part, I see your point with inverting the existing blocks, but I 
don't think it's that big of a deal, I work with coffee a lot and I 
don't really have problems with it, although my text editor colors it 
nicely. I don't really know anyone who doesn't use some form of syntax 
highlighting for Ruby development, so I'm not too worried about that. If 
you're writing a multiline comment you're probably going to open and 
close it in one go so it's not that easy to make the mistake you're 
talking about. Somewhat more valid concern is if someone wanted to make 
a single-line comment like #########################... I guess there 
could be an extra character besides the #. Perhaps ##[ ... ]## wouldn't 
be too terrible.

I don't think the LUA syntax for the comments fits into the Ruby 
language. ### still feels by far the best. But even --[[ is better than 
=begin that must start at the beginning of the line.

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