On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:30, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> 
> > I think, to do this, you don't even need dnl:
> > 
> > <<EOF
> > Remember
> > that Ruby is
> > expression-oriented.
> > EOF
> 
> Or, for the Python fans, Ruby supports
> 
> """Remember that
> Ruby is expression-oriented
> (and has implicit string concatenation..."""
> 
> Of course, it isn't too good having any of these in a oft-repeated loop, 
> and mine won't be too happy if the comment contains a '"'.
> 
> But then again, given a decent editor, I'm not sure I've ever felt the 
> need for multi-line comments in Ruby. Given an editor that understands 
> word-wrap in comment mode, I much prefer having an explicit comment 
> character at the start of each line; it seems to make scanning the file 
> easier.
> 

/* Which is often what
 * people do
 * in C/C++ anyhow
 */

I guess the need of multi-line comment could be to comment out quickly a
chunk of code. And Emacs doesn't have a "comment out region" like in
c-mode. Does anybody know how to add that feature? What about other
editors?

Guillaume.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
>