Re: assorted beginner questions

On Jan 28, 2007, at 7:35 AM, David Pollak wrote:

> Unfortunately, there's no substitution of values like Ruby (hint,  
> hint):
> """" -- note the 4th quote
> This is a multi
> line
> String
> created at #{new java.util.Date}
> """"

But Burak's XML library supports this: e.g.,

val xxx=<p>This is a multi
line
String
create at {new java.util.Data}</p>;

Kind of cool once you start using it.

> > are there any form of nested comments in scala?
> No.  Comments in Scala are like comments in Java.

As Martin pointed out this is incorrect. I made this mistake to, the  
fact that multi-line comments nest is buried in the spec.