From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-06-20T01:42:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:58:34 +0900,
Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> wrote:
> > 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. ;)

Well, it would not be worst, at least.

> 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.

%# means a string literal delimted by #.

puts %#{comment} or string? #
{comment} or string?
    ==>nil

> 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).

"Currently, string literal can contain #{# this is comment
''}comment."

-- 
Nobu Nakada