Sam Korn wrote:
On 1/7/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
What's wrong with having tidy text in the code? I can't see a reason that template:tl needs to be changed. And I really wish you wouldn't create a bot just yet until this has been thoroughly discussed. :)
Don't worry, my bot isn't programmed yet! (Though it is named: Sambot, in honour of Rambot.) Nothing is wrong with having tidy text in the code. However, the balance between the potential losses in terms of server strain and the usefullness of tidy code (IMO) falls definitely on the side of easing server strain.
Template:tl is protected anyway, so I don't see the risk as being all that large. If other templates also become so widely used that changes to them would cause serious problems, protect them too. Such widespread templates probably shouldn't be changed very often anyway even if there weren't server issues, simply on account of how many places such changes would touch.
On the other hand, if it later turns out that a template like this _does_ need changing, it'll be a lot harder to fix everything if it's been substed everywhere.