[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

Sheldon Rampton sheldon at prwatch.org
Thu Jul 16 07:52:08 UTC 2009


Steve Bennett wrote:

> Oh, this is so easy in MOO code[1], it's not funny:
>
> {{`tostr(args[1], " + ", args[2], " = ", args[1] + args[2]) ! ANY =>
> "that's an error"'}}
>
> (yes that's a backquote at the start and a normal one at the end.
> Semantics of "+" may differ from what you intended.)


I think it needs more squiggly brackets. And a couple of @ symbols.  
Can you sprinkle in some hash marks too, pretty please?

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