Re: [Phpwiki-talk] comment syntax?

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

At 16:37 21/02/2002, you wrote:
>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.

Oh yes.  I'd forgotten that.




> > 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.)

What I had in mind was the
{{ability to
do this }}
sort of {{thing}}



>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....

Actually, I think I agree with that (happens sometimes, you know)

L