Phil Boswell wrote:
James Day has asked (here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Qif)
for documentation on the interesting behaviour of the "Parameter Default"
feature, the mainstay of operation for [[en:Template:qif]] which has
recently caused so much stir.
I have been able to locate [[m:Help:Parameter default]] but this seems to be
an after-the-fact description of how the system behaves, rather than a
before-the-fact specification, which seems to be what James is after.
Does anybody know where such a beast might be hiding (possibly in plain
sight :-) ?
Probably doesn't exist. If you hadn't noticed, our wikitext format doesn't
have
a spec and things have generally gotten grafted on with little thought for
correctness or consistency.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)