On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Over on http://www.rubygarden.org, dv posted a patch to parse.y that
> adds support for /* .. */ comments in Ruby.
> 
> Waddya think? Good idea? Rebarbative C-ism?

Rebarbative. With "#", comment blocks are easy enough already.

  # This is a comment block
  # which is very long and
  # doesn't say much

vs

  /* This is a comment block
     which is very long and
     doesn't say much */

vs

  /* This is a comment block
   * which is very long and
   * doesn't say much */

vs

  /* This is a comment block
     which is very long and
     doesn't say much
  */

vs

  /*
  This is a comment block
  which is very long and
  doesn't say much
  */

The "#" just looks plain better. :)

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