Re: [SMARTY-DEV] nested comments

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:05:40 -0800 (PST), Boots <jayboots@yahoo.com> wrote:

We could introduce a new commenting syntax for commenting large blocks of code, including normal comments. I think the syntax would most intuitively be {** **}.

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This would imply that you can't nest {** **} tags, but you could have several sets of them in one template. Well, it is not worth implementing if they anyway cannot be nested.

The reason is that once you've turned off small block, later you may want to turn off more.

These are meant as *temporary* signals for debugging purposes Often it's more like "Nothing is more persistent than temporary"

I know our designers. Before Smarty they even used HTML-comments to "turn off" template parts. The reason is they don't want to make extra moves when they'll need that parts back.

create a custom block function (I suggest naming it something like NOP) Seems to be reasonable. I'd name it {comment}{/comment}. It would be better

to have it as a compiler block function, but they are not implemeted. May be, I will use a prefilter, as recommended by Messju Mohr. There is another thing with nested blocks that is not critical but would be appreciated: keep track of proper block nesting and proper number of block open/close tags at compile time. That is the reason why I don't like {if 0}{/if}. Konstantin A. Pelepelin P.S. Thank you for this great software.