From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@...>
Date: 2003-06-17T23:58:34+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

That's not much worse than what you'd get if you did that in C or C++, but
that's not saying much. ;)

Anyway, I don't think /* ... */ fits well into Ruby's syntax, but what
about something like: %#{}? We have %w{}, %r{}, etc... seems like %#{} is
pretty intuitive. But then, it does conflict with #{} expansion in
strings, so I guess you'd have to say no comments inside of strings (which
seems reasonable--you can't currently put regular "#" comments in
strings).

Well, just throwing out ideas. To be honest, =begin and =end or just
adding #'s to the beginning of each line works pretty well for me. The
only thing I do miss a little is a way to do inline comments:

code (comment) more code

Wes