Multi-line comments leads to unexpected tIDENTIFIER

Question

I am trying to add a few >>> DocStrings. Here is a piece of my code:

def service_destroy(service)

    =begin
        service_check(service) retun 0 || 1
        1 if service up and running
        0 otherwise
    =end

    ...

According to documentation and other questions, it must be ignored, but I have a syntax error:

syntax error, unexpected '='
    =begin
     ^

Answer 1

Start and end of multiline comments must be placed at the beginning of a line.