multi line comments in ruby

[Artur Merke]

Hi,

some time (years ;-) ago there was a discussion about multi line comments
in ruby on this list. I didn't follow it completely, just found it in
news.google. There were sth. about 60 postings but AFAIK today (and it is
2 years later!) there is still no other way to make multi line comments
in ruby then the cumbersome

=begin
....
=end

block? Is this right, or have I simply missed something?

IMHO a simple c/c++ style comment

/*
....
*/

is missing in ruby!


Artur

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[Robert Klemme]

"Artur Merke" <merke@ls1.cs.uni-dortmund.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi,
>
> some time (years ;-) ago there was a discussion about multi line

comments

> in ruby on this list. I didn't follow it completely, just found it in
> news.google. There were sth. about 60 postings but AFAIK today (and it

is

> 2 years later!) there is still no other way to make multi line comments
> in ruby then the cumbersome
>
> =begin
> ...
> =end
>
> block? Is this right, or have I simply missed something?
>
> IMHO a simple c/c++ style comment
>
> /*
> ...
> */
>
> is missing in ruby!

Personally I don't miss it since I don't find =begin =end tedious. As far
as I remember there was some problem with the language syntax that
prevented usage of /* */. And, after all: Ruby != C... :-)

Regards

robert

[Josef 'Jupp' Schugt]

* Artur Merke; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:28:17 +0100

> some time (years ;-) ago there was a discussion about multi line comments
> in ruby on this list. I didn't follow it completely, just found it in
> news.google. There were sth. about 60 postings but AFAIK today (and it is
> 2 years later!) there is still no other way to make multi line comments
> in ruby then the cumbersome
>
>=begin
> ...
>=end

Here's an evil hack that you should *not* use:

_=<<_
This
is
a
multiline
pseudo-comment
_


Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

[Robert Klemme]

"Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bop7am$1hbu6a$1@ID-53633.news.uni-berlin.de...

> * Artur Merke; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:28:17 +0100
>

> > some time (years ;-) ago there was a discussion about multi line

comments

> > in ruby on this list. I didn't follow it completely, just found it in
> > news.google. There were sth. about 60 postings but AFAIK today (and

it is

> > 2 years later!) there is still no other way to make multi line

comments

> > in ruby then the cumbersome
> >
> >=begin
> > ...
> >=end

>
> Here's an evil hack that you should *not* use:

I'm wondering why you present it. Isn't that contradictory?
:-)

robert

[Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT]

Hi!

* Robert Klemme; 2003-11-17, 14:18 UTC:

> "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:bop7am$1hbu6a$1@ID-53633.news.uni-berlin.de...

> > Here's an evil hack that you should *not* use:

>
> I'm wondering why you present it.

Because it exists.

> Isn't that contradictory?

No, I say one should not use it as in 'refrain from using it unless
you precisely know what you are doing' (the RFC SHOULD that is :-).

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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