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