From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T04:16:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?

Dave Thomas wrote:
> Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 
>> I think, to do this, you don't even need dnl:
>>
>> <<EOF
>> Remember
>> that Ruby is
>> expression-oriented.
>> EOF
> 
> 
> Or, for the Python fans, Ruby supports
> 
> """Remember that
> Ruby is expression-oriented
> (and has implicit string concatenation..."""

And in the same vein:

   puts; %{ this is a comment }; puts

Just don't leave out the semicolons! As Hal pointed out, this "comment" 
is an expression with a value, not something filtered out by the 
preprocessor.