As a note, this has been merged and will go out with wmf2; I've added it to
Tech/News 41.
J.
On 29 September 2014 23:37, dan entous <dan.entous.wikimedia(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
+1
On Sep 29, 2014, at 19:38 , James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 28 September 2014 20:17, Jackmcbarn
<jackmcbarn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Scribunto has an option to allow code to be saved even if it contains
> syntax errors that prevent it from ever working. The original reason for
> this feature was to make it more convenient to save incomplete code.
> However, in practice, this has never been used for its intended purpose,
> and users who don't know any Lua are breaking otherwise-functional
modules
> with it. Because of this, and because
it's easy enough to save
incomplete
> code by simply wrapping it all in a multiline
comment, I plan to remove
the
option
unless objections are raised.
This seems totally reasonable; we already do this with JSON, and I
believe
it's also planned for JS and CSS content
types as well. Go for it.
J.
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