From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T17:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?


"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:002901c33421$ce01dea0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Guillaume Marcais" <guslist@free.fr>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:51 AM
> Subject: Re: Multiline comments?
>
>
> > def dnl(*args); nil end
> > dnl <<EOF
> > This is a
> > multiline comment
> > EOF
> >
> > Might not solve really what you want though!
> >
> > Guillaume.
>
> I think, to do this, you don't even need dnl:
>
> <<EOF
> Remember
> that Ruby is
> expression-oriented.
> EOF

Better use <<'EOF' to avoid any evaluations inside of the comment.

And one can do

=begin

This is also regarded
a
multiline
comment

=end

:-)

    robert