Re: [Phpwiki-talk] comment syntax?

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> Yes it is, but...   The whole point of the comment syntax is that the
> comments don't get sent to the browser.  That makes it hard to do anything
> malicious with them.

ah, i was orgininally thinking that we could just enable the comment
html tag and let it pass through to the browser since it won't be seen. 
it didn't occur to me that there was a simpler alternative :)
 
> Good point.  Though nearly any comment syntax will screw up pasting
> whatever kind of code the syntax is stolen from.
> 
> Probably: don't allow/recognize comments within <verbatim> blocks. 
> (Probably not within <pre> blocks either.  Also you can always escape
> them: 
>   ~// This is not a comment.

sounds reasonable to me.

thanks,
adam.