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Subject: Re: Block comments syntax
From: "Johan Toki Persson" <tokikenshi gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:07:53 +0900
References: 172507 172510 172517
In-reply-to: 172517

More that it is a facility for embedded documentation:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/rdtool.html