2009/7/6 geni <geni...@gmail.com>:

> Questionable. Since for fairly obvious reasons you can't let
> wikipedians execute arbitrary code through templates there is always
> going to be the problem of wikipedians useing workarounds that
> generate problematical code.


ParserFunctions is already Turing-complete, so your first clause is
factually inaccurate. The present workaround is to kill template
computations that take too long. The problems are: (1) they're hard to
program (2) they're hard to parse.


- d.

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