James Edward Gray II wrote:

> Ruby's block comment looks like this:
> 
> =begin
> 
> We're in a comment here.  Both the =begin and the =end must be the first 
> elements on a line for this to work.
> 
> =end

Are there any plans on introducing shorter form in ruby 2?

The form isn't that much of a problem, but the fact that something like 
that isn't possible

puts "hey" =begin
comment
=end

Esad