Re: Suggestion about commenting for future TAL versions

On 12/13/05, Mikko Ohtamaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> In TAL making comments is pretty heavy and HTML syntax highlighters don't detect
> comments. Because commenting is such pain lazy people (like me!) might skip it.

Agreed.

> Difference between a comment which appears in the final HTML and a comment which
> is dropped out when applying the template is the number of dashes <!-- and <!---

This is *really* subtle; too much so.  Does anyone actually want to
generate comments that are delivered to the browser anyway?  Maybe the
compilation stage should simply throw out comments by default.


  -Fred

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