Paul Seamons wrote:
[SNIP]
Thinking from a parser standpoint it would be easier and faster if we did
something like
[%#*
This is a block comment - notice the matching opening and closing comment
tags.
[% foo
*#%]
This is a little more similar to how the Velocity syntax does their block
comment. They actually use # for their tag delimeter so their block comment
is
#* comment goes here *#
Using the [%#* Way is easy to check for and would allow a fast parse to the
closing tag. It would also allow you to have broken TT inside the comment.
This is one failing of the COMMENT directive is that the TT inside still has
to be valid. A true block comment will allow for anything.
I would love to see better handling of comments containing TT tags. I've been
bitten by the TT tags inside comment deal before and now I often just use the
following for all my more complex comments:
[% BLOCK comment1 %]commented text[% END %]
Having a [%#* *#%] would be very nice. I would prefer that over the [% COMMENT
%]...[% END %] syntax.
Possible bonus points if it can handle comments inside comments. For example by
detecting the character after the '#'. ie:
[%#1
blah...
[%#0
foo ...
[%#* Some other crazy code *#%]
bar...
0#%]
1#%]
-- Josh
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