On 04/07/07, Daniel Cannon cannon.danielc@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps, but it's surely too late for that now. Any reformation of the wikimarkup system must, all costs, ensure backwards compatibility with the current wikimarkup. MediaWiki is a very widely used piece of software, and even a simple change like redefining {{{{x}}}} in any way--either having it twice-expand the template or having it resolve to a parsing error--could break a multitude of template systems across not just Wikipedia but hundreds of wikis, both on and off Wikimedia.
Sooner or later, we are going to have to define the parser behaviour once and for all. When that happens, there will, no doubt, be some backwards-incompatible changes in edge cases. This is unavoidable.
Rob Church