Sam Korn wrote:
On 1/7/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris(a)starglade.org>
wrote:
What's wrong with having tidy text in the
code? I can't see a reason
that template:tl needs to be changed. And I really wish you wouldn't
create a bot just yet until this has been thoroughly discussed. :)
Don't worry, my bot isn't programmed yet! (Though it is named: Sambot,
in honour of Rambot.) Nothing is wrong with having tidy text in the
code. However, the balance between the potential losses in terms of
server strain and the usefullness of tidy code (IMO) falls definitely
on the side of easing server strain.
Template:tl is protected anyway, so I don't see the risk as being all
that large. If other templates also become so widely used that changes
to them would cause serious problems, protect them too. Such widespread
templates probably shouldn't be changed very often anyway even if there
weren't server issues, simply on account of how many places such changes
would touch.
On the other hand, if it later turns out that a template like this
_does_ need changing, it'll be a lot harder to fix everything if it's
been substed everywhere.