On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Michael Daly<michael.daly(a)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.