Re: [Phpwiki-talk] comment syntax?

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

Lawrence Akka said:
> Anyway, people  should not have to use <pre> for code
> blocks if they don't want to (even if  it *is* a good idea).

If we adopt the new markup they will have to.  Otherwise their
code will get run together in one big paragraph.

> Also, whilst I'm on this rant, why should comments not be multiline?
> Would  it be useful to be able to comment out large blocks of wikitext,
> without  actually deleting it?  They could be picked up by the block
> parser, and the  inline parser, couldn't they?

As long as we make them either block-level or inline-level the parsers
will be able to deal with them fairly easily.  (I.e. if we make them
inline ((so that you can do this)), then they will not be allowed to
span paragraphs.)

I'm not sure we want to make it too easy to comment large blocks of
text anyway.  Comments as instructions to the editor are good, I
think.  Comments as a place to store work in progress (or whatever)
are a bad idea (on a wiki).  Either just show the work in progress,
or put it on it's own page....