Michael Daly wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
The ideal markup situation for the article namespace is that markup shouldn't even *be* exposed to most users. A long-term goal is migration to a more WYSIWIG-like editing experience -- to which one of the potential stumbling blocks has been "but how will we do templates, which currently are built with our horrifying wiki markup?"
Since templates forbid looping,
Since iteration over a set is frequently desired/needed, assume it will exist in a sensible programming language.
As already noted in this thread, horrible hacks for limited-depth looping are already in use.
-- brion