Strip comments out of cartocss

lib/torque/renderer/point.js

@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ var CartoDatasource = require('./datasource');
     return COMP_OP_TO_CANVAS[compop] || compop;
   }
 
+  // Take an input cartocss that may contain comments and remove them
+  var COMMENTS_RE = /\/\*.*?\*\/\n?/mg;
+  function stripComments(cartocss) {
+    return cartocss.replace(COMMENTS_RE, '');
+  }
+
   //
   // this renderer just render points depending of the value
   //
@@ -73,8 +79,7 @@ var CartoDatasource = require('./datasource');
     this._icons = {};
     this._iconsToLoad = 0;
     this._filters = new Filters(this._canvas, {canvasClass: options.canvasClass});
-    this.style = this.options.cartocss || DEFAULT_CARTOCSS;
-    this.setCartoCSS(this.style);
+    this.setCartoCSS(this.options.cartocss || DEFAULT_CARTOCSS);
     this.TILE_SIZE = 256;
     this._style = null;
     this._gradients = {};
@@ -116,11 +121,11 @@ var CartoDatasource = require('./datasource');
     setCartoCSS: function(cartocss, callback) {
       var self = this;
 
-      this.style = cartocss;
+      this.style = stripComments(cartocss);
 
-      if (PointRenderer.isTurboCarto(cartocss)) {
+      if (PointRenderer.isTurboCarto(this.style)) {
         var datasource = new CartoDatasource(self.layer._tiles);
-        turbocarto(cartocss, datasource, function (err, parsedCartoCSS) {
+        turbocarto(this.style, datasource, function (err, parsedCartoCSS) {
           if (err) {
             return callback(err, null);
           }
@@ -131,7 +136,7 @@ var CartoDatasource = require('./datasource');
           callback && callback();
         });
       } else {
-        self.setShader(new carto.RendererJS().render(cartocss));
+        self.setShader(new carto.RendererJS().render(this.style));
         callback && callback();
       }
     },