Yukihiro Matsumoto
12/22/2008 1:13:00 AM
Hi,
In message "Re: block comment problem"
on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:35:44 +0900, Dave Bass <davebass@musician.org> writes:
|Matz wrote:
|> "=begin" should start at the beginning of a line. You cannot indent
|> them.
|
|Any good reason for this?
They're not part of regular syntax, so I want clearly mark as such.
Besides that, they were designed to be used for embedded documents a la
Perl at the very early stage of Ruby development, when we didn't have
RDoc yet. I'd rather recommend to put # signs at the top of lines.
matz.