----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nobu.nokada / softhome.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: Multiline comments?


> 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?

I think I would use something based on #, but
looking like array syntax %w[...] or string 
syntax %[...]

Perhaps #(...) or even #{...} (though the latter
would mean no comments inside interpolated expressions).

Hal