> Hi,
>
> At Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:49:53 +0900,
> Hal E. Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The first reason is the notation.  At least, (* *) and /* */
> conflicted or didn't match with Ruby's syntax.  Do you have any
> idea?

Not to say that /* ... */ matches Ruby's syntax very well, but it doesn't
really conflict, does it? You can't start a regex with /* because the
kleene star is not referencing anything.

Wes