To pitch in, many many many mediawiki run sites are DEFIANTLY something that regex would be bad to make impossible to type.
Also, first thing that came to mind for ME, was URLS - most URLs have /something/like/this.ext in them - that would be tons of extra code to make it not apply within URLs...
On a sidetopic, I'm having trouble submitting things to this list unless I'm replying to something like this - I've tried to send at least 15 notes to this list, and they won't go that I can tell, unless people have completely ignored all of them so far...
On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:30:09PM -0400, Pedro de Medeiros wrote:
On 4/27/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
This thread has gotten so dense that I can no longer discern what the topic is, much less who's on which side. If anyone sees fit to continue it, I suggest they start by enumerating those two things.
Not sure what you mean by 'dense'. My "side" of the thread is just that I get agitated at illogical/fallacious arguments like "let's not use slashes for italics -- they look like regular expressions." That's all.
According to the principle of least astonishment, if someone types something between /slashes/ in a wiki document, he doesn't expect it to turn into regular expressions to do some unobvious pattern matching when "commit" is pressed. So I agree with you.
See my other message: the actual issue is when people *type an example of a regular expression into a wikipage*. While that may not happen much on Wikipedia, remember that Not All Mediawikiae Are Wikipedia, a rule that's pertinent when discussing this category of topic.
Cheers,
-- jra
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normallyread text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?
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