On 7/3/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Well, not as obvious as a nice fat parse error would be. :)
Ah, now that's a good idea: If you don't know what someone means by something, ask them.
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.
Any reformation should have as its goal the expansion of the wikimarkup's functionality whilst maintaining both its current functionality and syntax.