Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra@gmail.com
Could a temporal template in one way or another subst: itself once the expiriation date passes? Now that would be awesome.
William Beutler williambeutler@gmail.com wrote:
A self-updating template seems very unlikely to this non-programmer, but a bot could certainly be created to handle these tasks. I wonder if that isn't already done on, say, {{as of}} for example?
IANAP so take with a grain of salt, but this is my sense of things. There are bots that work with templates, categories, etc.. AIUI, for this kind of template to work requires a switching function that would be based on the conditional {{if}} templates. One of the complaints about the template system is that things can only be done through these boolean templates, which locks the programmer into certain ways of doing things which themselves are not objectively functional, for example searching the database. Combining template functions with bot processes is something people have done, but AFAIK noone has worked on developing this combination as an actual computing paradigm. During debates about implenting a scripting language, people seemed hung up on the surface-level issues with template scripting.
-SC