Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Seamons wrote:
>> Text::Tmpl has a COMMENT directive. Both to
>> enhance cross compatibility as well as to add features, it
>> would be nice for TT to support this directive. It would
>> most likely have to be added at the TT3 release.
>>
>> Template::Parser::CET and Template::Alloy support it currently.
>>
>> [% COMMENT %]
>>
>> Template section that won't be shown
>> [% var_a %]
>> [% IF foo %]Foo[% END %]
>>
>> [% END %]
>>
>> Paul Seamons
>
> Do you mean this to be something analogous to Javadoc? Otherwise there
> is already a way to comment stuff with [%# %]. What do you mean by
> "cross compatibility"?
>
> [%#
> Template section that won't be shown
> [% var_a %]
> [% IF foo %]Foo[% END %]
> %]
No, that won't do: The comment '[%#' ends with the *first* '%]' it
encounters, there's no concept of nested tags (at least in TT2).
I've been bitten by that occasionally when I tried to comment out
bigger sections in templates. A workaround for the page appearance is
to [% FILTER redirect("/dev/null") %], but it is really just a
*workaround* since included directives will be processed by TT (same
for the other workaround to embed in HTML comments, for web output).
So a comment block would add something I could have used sometimes in
the past.
--
Cheers,
haj
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