[Wikipedia-l] Table markup

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:51:46PM +0200, Magnus Manske wrote:
> OK, anyone opposed to
> - wiki table markup *in general*
> - the *markup style* I use at test.wikipedia.org
> - my *implementation* of that style
> 
> please speak up now! Otherwise, I'll commit it to the stable branch of 
> the software, which means it will go online with the next update.

I'm not a great fan of it.
Can you provide complete specification of how is it supposed to behave ?
It seems to be stealing whole 3 characters - {, }, and |,
and to be much more ambiguous than it should.