From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-06-17T12:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:33:35 +0900,
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> wrote:
> > The first reason is the notation.  At least, (* *) and /* */
> > conflicted or didn't match with Ruby's syntax.  Do you have any
> > idea?
> 
> Not to say that /* ... */ matches Ruby's syntax very well, but it doesn't
> really conflict, does it? You can't start a regex with /* because the
> kleene star is not referencing anything.

Yes, it certainly doesn't conflict, but might cause confusion.
'/' is used as also an operator not only regexp.

What do you expect from this?

  p //* 2

-- 
Nobu Nakada