[Doc-SIG] Comments on the reST specification - comments

[David Goodger]

on 2001-08-07 1:20 AM, Garth T Kidd (garth@deadlybloodyserious.com) wrote:
> One thing I keep forgetting to point out with regards to directives is
> that I expect the application to run the [non-argument] contents through
> the parser again, hence ``sidebar::`` as my canonical example. It could
> just as easily be ``pagefooter::`` or ``pullquote::``.

The directive code can parse its block however it likes.

> I think comments might also end up run through the parser sometimes.

I don't think so. :-)

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