On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Michael Dalymichael.daly@kayakwiki.org wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
The ideal markup situation for the article namespace is that markup shouldn't even *be* exposed to most users. A long-term goal is migration to a more WYSIWIG-like editing experience -- to which one of the potential stumbling blocks has been "but how will we do templates, which currently are built with our horrifying wiki markup?"
Since templates forbid looping, whatever manages it can't be considered a programming language (missing iteration in {sequence, selection, iteration}).
You can clone a template multiple times to effectively create recursion of a finite maximum depth.