[patch] Allow block tags to be commented out

[Chris Beaven]

Rather than having a new tag for comments (see ticket #648), it would be useful to be able to comment out block tags in code (this could be easily extended to variable tags too).

This is could provide the similar functionality as #648 since you can use the block tag as a comment, {%# MY COMMENT %}, without requiring a new template tag format.

Example:

{% #if female - always show for now %}
<p>You're a girl!</p>
{% #endif %}

[Chris Beaven]

patch, including tests

[Alan Green]

This looks like a useful alternative to {% comment %} {% endcomment %} for single line comments.

[Hawkeye]

I'm +0 on this... I prefer #648 -- I think it's more elegant and more semetric.

Still, there needs to be some mechanism to easily and efficiently insert readable comments into templates.

If this is going to be included, I don't see a reason not to use the originally suggested syntax (but I'd prefer this to nothing).

[Chris Beaven]

Hawkeye, Adrian already expressed he didn't want another template tag syntax. This solution works inside of an existing tag, so it may get passed this criteria.

Let it be known that using this format as an inline comment doesn't have to be "officially" stated.
The main advantage and primary purpose of this patch is that this is useful for commenting out block tags without having to wrap them in a {% comment %} block.

[Adrian Holovaty]

I'm marking this as a wontfix. If anything, #648 is better.