On Tuesday 31 July 2007 16:58:10 Rob Church wrote:
On 31/07/07, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
= means: make a full break considering all elements above.
How do we know this isn't going to conflict with existing usage in an incompatible manner? Introducing special meanings for characters which don't have them once the markup is well established *might* be problematic in some cases.
Well you can easily estimate the possible trouble with a SQL query against our wiki databases for these strings ( \ + - = ). I am pretty sure that if you really encounter this syntax, that is is very likely inside <pre>, <nowiki> or <code>.
But anyways. Quite some parts of MediaWiki syntax have changed in the past a lot. Template syntax for example has changed dramatically without any real warning with quite some implications on used templates, partly resulting in totally different output (of course I strongly welcomed these bold changes at templates, cause they where necessary).
So any of the template changes (templates also raise any template syntax change to the power cause of embedding) had a larger side effect on existing wiki layout than my proposed br syntax could have.
Arnomane