2011/1/4 Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com
What a "creative" use of #lst allows, if it is really an efficient, light routine, is to build named variables and arrays of named variables into
one
page; I can't imagine what a good programmer could do with such a
powerful
tool. I'm, as you can imagine, far from a good programmer, nevertheless I built easily routines for unbeliavable results. Perhaps, coming back to
the
topic..... a good programmer would disrupt wikipedia using #lst? :-)
Using #lst to implement variables in wikitext sounds like a terrible hack, similar to how using {{padleft:}} to implement string functions in wikitext is a terrible hack.
Thanks Roan, your statement sound very alarming for me; I'll open a specific thread about into wikisource-l quoting this talk. I'm doing any efford to avoid server/history overload, since I know that I am using a free service (I just fixed {{loop}} template to optimize it into it.source, at my best...) and if you are right, I've to change deeply my approach to #lst.
:-(
Alex