Mark-up for comments (was Re: [Phpwiki-talk] New jeffshacks snapshot.)

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

Steve Wainstead wrote:
> Wikis are commonly used by development folks as a sort of whiteboard/on
> the fly documentation system. This means any common comment tokens like
> 
> #
> ;
> /* */
> //
> --
> <!-- -->
> 
> are probably not a good idea,
>

An interesting point!  On the other hand, introducing yet another
quasi-random piece of markup syntax is not necessarily the greatest
idea either.   You can't really just paste code into PhpWiki even now.
If you ensure each line is indented, then it works okay, but you
still get sporadic WikiLinks...  (Note that if one requires comments
to start in column zero, then conflicts with cut-and-pasted code
are pretty much eliminated.)

UseMod has support for <pre></pre> tags which really do disable all
markup, and are therefore quite useful for posting code.
I wouldn't mind seeing something like this incorporated into PhpWiki.