On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:30:09PM -0400, Pedro de Medeiros wrote:
On 4/27/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
This thread has gotten so dense that I can no longer discern what the topic is, much less who's on which side. If anyone sees fit to continue it, I suggest they start by enumerating those two things.
Not sure what you mean by 'dense'. My "side" of the thread is just that I get agitated at illogical/fallacious arguments like "let's not use slashes for italics -- they look like regular expressions." That's all.
According to the principle of least astonishment, if someone types something between /slashes/ in a wiki document, he doesn't expect it to turn into regular expressions to do some unobvious pattern matching when "commit" is pressed. So I agree with you.
See my other message: the actual issue is when people *type an example of a regular expression into a wikipage*. While that may not happen much on Wikipedia, remember that Not All Mediawikiae Are Wikipedia, a rule that's pertinent when discussing this category of topic.
Cheers, -- jra