Tim Starling wrote:
In response to a campaign by users of the English Wikipedia to harrass developers by introducing increasingly ugly and inefficient meta-templates to popular pages, I've caved in and written a few reasonably efficient parser functions. There are two conditional functions and a mathematical expression function. The expression function should support uses such as time and date deltas, as well as floating point applications such as unit conversion. The conditional functions should replace most uses of {{qif}}, and improve the efficiency of similar templates.
Of course, the moment I get my XML converter working reasonably well, you have to go ahead and extend the syntax! ;-)
OTOH, why not think this through till the bitter end? Let's implement a whole programming language! What about WikiScript? Or a Perl implementation: Wiki + Perl = Wirl! It would be slow, but you could use wiki markup & HTML for the comments.
Sorry.
Magnus