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I wish the start of comment can still be made less verbose-y “{!-- comment --}”

Comment can just be {!comment} or {#comment} in Mark, if you like.

In the README example, I deliberately made it resemble HTML comment, so as to make it easier for people to correlate.

huh. when i read the spec, i thought comments were c like

    begin_sl_comment ::= '//'
    begin_ml_comment ::= '/*'
    end_ml_comment   ::= '*/'

maybe that ebnf is out of date.

In Mark, there are two types of 'comment'. // comment and /* comment */ are lexical comments, which are stripped during parsing.

Then there's Mark pragma, like {!pragma}, which are preserved in the data model. HTML comment is supported as Mark pragma, not Mark comment.

Oh that's a really interesting distinction.