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authorzverok <zverok.offline@gmail.com>2019-10-24 19:35:36 +0300
committerNobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>2019-10-26 14:58:08 +0900
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Documentation improvements for Ruby core
* Top-level `return`; * Documentation for comments syntax; * `rescue` inside blocks; * Enhance `Object#to_enum` docs; * Make `chomp:` option more obvious for `String#each_line` and `#lines`; * Enhance `Proc#>>` and `#<<` docs; * Enhance `Processs` class docs.
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+= Code Comments
+
+Ruby has two types of comments: inline and block.
+
+Inline comments start with the <code>#</code> character and continue until the
+end of the line:
+
+ # On a separate line
+ class Foo # or at the end of the line
+ # can be indented
+ def bar
+ end
+ end
+
+Block comments start with <code>=begin</code> and end with <code>=end</code>.
+Each should start on a separate line.
+
+ =begin
+ This is
+ commented out
+ =end
+
+ class Foo
+ end
+
+ =begin some_tag
+ this works, too
+ =end
+
+<code>=begin</code> and <code>=end</code> can not be indented, so this is a
+syntax error:
+
+ class Foo
+ =begin
+ Will not work
+ =end
+ end