>
>
> The primary difference to me is the ease of expansion that comes along
> with comments. Ie, if there is already one line of comments, I just hit
> newline in my editor, and it automatically adds a new comment leader and I
> can add an additional thought to the comment. Whereas with strings and
> markup, I have to go and tidy up the ending quotations.
>
Given triple-quoted string literals, I don't see what the problem is. Why
is it hard to insert a new line in:
doc """
blah blah
blah
"""
function foo(...)
...
end
> But if we're proposing modifying the parser anyways, then we could get the
> best of both worlds with a* doc* keyword that is line terminated or block
> terminated just like the let keyword:
>
> doc begin
> lots of documentation, blah
> blah
> end
>
>
Why is begin...end better than """....""" ?
