Having javascript multiline comments (/* ... */) inside the multiline string

[yuvilio]

Is it possible to have multiline js style comments (/*... */) in the string? One convoluted use case is having commented CDATA blocks in one's svg markup for css styles.

multiline(function(){
/*
<svg>
<style>
  /* <![CDATA[ */
    rect {
      fill: salmon;
    }
  /* ]]> */
</style>
</svg>


*/        })

That just generates an expected SyntaxError: Unexpected token < error and non of the escaping i've tried seems to generate the desired comments.

I can skip the CDATA blocks or put the styles in my separate stylesheets rather than the tag, so this is not blocking, but I was curious about it.

[sindresorhus]

No sorry. That would complicate the parser too much for such an edge-case.

[yuvilio]

Figured and makes sense.

[yuvilio]

This ended up being much easier to handle using a template engine (swig in my case) than trying to twist multiline into something it's not. I went back to using multiline for what it does best, making multiple line Javascript strings that are pleasant to look at and work with.