Feature #20405: Inline comments

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

I propose a new inline comment syntax.

p (| This is a comment (| and nested one |) /:|) (:|) #=> :|

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

I like this proposal. But there are other possibilities, such as:

(: This is comment :)

That would just underline Ruby as a "happy" language. Of course variants such as (-: ... :-) or even (o: ... :o) could even extend the expressiveness of comments

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

vo.x (Vit Ondruch) wrote in #note-1:

I like this proposal. But there are other possibilities, such as:

(: This is comment :)

Thank you for the comment, but you may know (: can conflict existing code.
The reason I selected (| is that /:|) is used as Matz's face (no beard version).

[matheusrich (Matheus Richard)]

I think, unironically, this could be a nice addition. Maybe with a syntax closer to the current comments?

p #= This is a comment #= and nested one =# =# :| # => :|