On another note, some people programmatically remove comments and whitespace during an ANT build/deployment. A hint attribute, for comments, might make such a process much more difficult.
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Ben Doom wrote: > I disagree that hints are cleaner than comments. Comments are set apart > from the logic, display, whatever. They are semantically easy to parse > as ignorable by the system, remove systematically, etc. They don't > clutter the tags. They're available both in the tag-based language and > script-based language. They're a standard feature, in some way or > another, of *every* language. > > Replacing them is, in my opinion, silly, and your suggestion seems like > an unnecessary "augmentation" that would add neither a fundamental > improvement in performance, a new ability, or enhanced ease-of-use. > > Sorry to be so negative, but I just don't see it. > > --Ben Doom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:300034 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
