From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T08:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "daz" <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?


> I used to use this until I saw another post which
> pointed out that Ruby string-interpolates inside
> here-docs  :(
> .... or  :) ?
> 
> 
> puts 'AA'
> 
> <<CMT
> puts 'BB', #{puts 'Oops'}
> CMT
> 
> puts 'CC'
> 
> 
> #-> AA
> #-> Oops
> #-> CC
> 
> 
> (And it's not always so obvious what has executed)
> 
> Recommend .never. to use this for m-l-comments.

Good point... but there's always

<<'EOF'
I will not 
interpolate: #{destroy_world()}
EOF

Hal