[Templates] Re: PROPOSAL: Add COMMENT BLOCK directive.

[Dave Howorth]

Harald Joerg wrote:
> Robert Hicks <sigzero@gmail.com> 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).

[% TAGS <+ +> %]<+#
whatever is commented out
#+><+ TAGS [% %] -+>

> So a comment block would add something I could have used sometimes in
> the past.

It would certainly be prettier :)

Cheers, Dave