On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:34:19PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 11/14/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
While that likely would mean changing some corner-case behavior (as noted above, the existing parser doesn't always do what's desired), it would not be a different *syntax* from the human perspective.
This is a very fine, but very important line you're drawing.
I had been assuming that not supporting the "some ''text[[foo|blah ''blah]]" case would count as changing the "syntax".
But that syntax is not salient, it is not important, it is arguably broken, and changing it is not "from the human perspective" necessarily even a change.
I *did* say we needed to *quantify* the corner cases before getting into whether we recast the syntax.
Cheers, -- jra