https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19298
--- Comment #11 from Le Chat <[email protected]> 2009-06-20 11:17:28 UTC --- But we already have functions under "expr", which *do* do computation and are found in practice to be very useful. Surely len(x) or x[3:5] is far cheaper, no more confusing to users and just as potentially useful, as ((x+50)/0.456. Have you seen the ugly and costly hacks that people are forced to use with padleft/right just to get the length of a string? And substring retrieval is impossible, as far as I know, which means some templates end up far more complex and harder to use than they need be. I agree that the existing syntax is bad, but the functionality it produces is extremely useful, and the addition of a few more functions using reasonable syntax (I'm not saying we need to have *every* function that's been requested) is not going to make the overall syntax problem any worse. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
