Feature #13393: New comment syntax

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Now ruby has 2 comment syntax, #... and =begin..=end, but they are line-oriented both.
This is a proposal of a new, very visible, inline comment syntax.

Turning on highlight mode (i.e., \e[1m) starts a comment and turning off (i.e., \e[m) ends it.
This visualizes comments very much.

https://github.com/nobu/ruby/tree/feature/highlight-comment

[normalperson (Eric Wong)]

[e-mail] wrote:

Turning on highlight mode (i.e., \e[1m) starts a comment and turning off (i.e., \e[m) ends it.
This visualizes comments very much.

+1 Please commit ASAP. This speeds up the parser 300% and load
times on my app decreased by 41%. There is also huge memory
savings, too!

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

We should use such syntax for literal syntax such as frozen one (with blue color).

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

I like colours. Even on first april so I have to take it almost literally as a real proposal.
(Actually after waking up, I forgot which day it was; the Assignee set here helped me
understand the proposal. :D )

It's one of the few things I like about cmake - while autoconf makes it more convenient for
people to adapt their project via readable commandline-switches (as opposed to cmake -D
something such as -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= versus configure --prefix= ), the default colours
used by cmake are IMO quite nice.

[stomar (Marcus Stollsteimer)]

I'd like to see colors allowed in method names. In the long run, all "bang methods" could be replaced by "red methods", to even better visually signal their dangerousness.

But I guess this would probably go beyond the scope of this feature request, so I will prepare a separate ticket...

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

ko1 (Koichi Sasada) wrote:

We should use such syntax for literal syntax such as frozen one (with blue color).

OK, updated.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected