Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
Wikitext is supposed to be a markup language, not a programming language, and for this reason we currently have no plans to enable StringFunctions or any similar functionality on Wikimedia sites.
This is my understanding of Brion and Tim's position. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
My understanding is that StringFunctions isn't enabled because it hasn't passed review, and needs improvements before it can, but that it's planned to eventually merge it into ParserFunctions. Tim explicitly recommended that string-related functions be added to ParserFunctions:
I believe its LoopFunctions[1] and VariablesExtension[2] that have the "programming language" issues, and DynamicFunctions[3], which also has caching problems.
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoopFunctions [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VariablesExtension [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DynamicFunctions