On 19/01/07, David Strauss david@fourkitchens.com wrote:
#loop is a problem. If this template language is Turing-complete, it can be used to run infinitely long programs. That is a huge avenue for abuse. Then again, there could be an execution limit to the parsing of a template.
We have one real-life example of this, of course, in the recent template on es: Wikipedia that took 20 seconds to run and caused some annoyance on wikitech-l ... how feasible are execution time limits in practice, what's a reasonable limit (knowing people are going to push as close to it as they can) and what's a reasonable failure mode (knowing people are going to push as close to it as they can)?
- d.