From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-06-21T19:25:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?

Hi,

At Sat, 21 Jun 2003 17:21:12 +0900,
daz wrote:
> Hope these will be nestable ;)
(snipped many matz's faces /:|)

I haven't considered about nesting.

> def foo(*args)
>   yield unless comment_given? or not respond_to?(:anything, true)
> rescue
>   puts "Sorry, I thought you were a block or an arg"
> end
> 
> foo (| this would not conflict |)  # OK, but visually ambiguous?

Yes, it's not nice.  What about <| |>?

I'm coming to consider /* */ would be better than the others,
even if it isn't best.

> I'm guessing you're ready to implement m-l-comments as soon
> as group takes responsibility for the syntax.

No, I haven't started it yet, but implementation is easy, no
problem.

-- 
Nobu Nakada