I've edited it for clarity based upon my original comment. :) I actually rely on this behavior every day because the app I've built uses require.js to load values into the `App.` namespace dynamically.

That being said, now that you mention it, it seems far more likely that the issue was HTML vs HBS commenting. As an aside, what is the default behavior going to be for HTML comments inside of HTMLBars templates? That seems like a really weird edge case to decide how to handle (for developers).