----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christoph Tapler" <christoph.tapler / gmx.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Multiline comments?


> I'm new to Ruby and I'm wondering that there is no possibility to write
> comments over more than one line. Just like in C for example with
> /* this is a
> multiline comment */
> 
> Is there any possibility to do this or is there a fundamental
> (architectural or whatever) problem?

The nearest you can come is =begin and =end.
Other than that, you just comment each line.

I don't think it's a major architectural problem;
more that Matz has not seen a significant need
for multiline comments. It has been discussed 
some.

The only time I miss them is when I (rarely)
want to put a comment in the middle of a line.

Hal

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