On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:46:23AM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com>
wrote:
Fine, but a) those are not the only problems
he's having, and b) No
[[Flag Day]]s.
Ok, that's the third time you've used the expression "flag day" on
this list. After the second time, I looked it up and wasn't
enlightened. What the hell do you mean? :)
For our purposes here, a Flag Day would be any change in the parser
that would require a pass over all article bodies to change markup from
an old to a new style, in whatever degree... as well as requiring
changes in people's heads, and any code which otherwise deals with
wikitext.
I don't think that a Flag Day for some exceedingly esoteric
construction which needs to be cleaned up to make a formal parser
necessary is completely impossible, but it would have to be pretty
negligible, pretty important, or both... it goes back to that circle I
mentioned.
And clearly, brion thinks that the absolute (never) is called for,
which means that what I think doesn't matter -- and he's better
informed than I am.
Cheers,
-- jra
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