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text/template: quoted "*/" within a /*...*/ comment terminates the comment #70366
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Description
Parsing this string with text/template gives an error:
{{/* print "*/" */}} -> error: "comment ends before closing delimiter"
Go version
go version go1.23.2 darwin/arm64
Output of go env in your module/workspace:
GO111MODULE='on'
GOARCH='arm64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/Users/zmj/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Users/zmj/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/Users/zmj/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY='git.dustess.com'
GONOSUMDB='git.dustess.com'
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/zmj/go'
GOPRIVATE='git.dustess.com'
GOPROXY='https://goproxy.io'
GOROOT='/Users/zmj/.gvm/gos/go1.23.2'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/Users/zmj/.gvm/gos/go1.23.2/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.23.2'
GODEBUG=''
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/Users/zmj/Library/Application Support/go/telemetry'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOARM64='v8.0'
AR='ar'
CC='/usr/bin/cc'
CXX='clang++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/Users/zmj/Desktop/projects/sfshare/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/2d/_qd9vb7n5yqfhxgx57llw8l40000gn/T/go-build685601311=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'What did you do?
https://go.dev/play/p/-jIq4rJbRfG
What did you see happen?
parse template failed: template: :2: comment ends before closing delimiterWhat did you expect to see?
except no error
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gabyhelp commentedon Nov 15, 2024
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adonovan commentedon Nov 15, 2024
Is this actually a bug? The Go scanner works in the exact same way:
https://go.dev/play/p/PCwzdxqPyD9
[-]text/template: Annotation parsing error, annotation symbols within the string should not be parsed[/-][+]text/template: quoted "*/" within a /*...*/ comment terminates the comment[/+]seankhliao commentedon Nov 15, 2024
I'd agree that this is working as intended and covered by the usual rules for "Comments do not nest ".