https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26092

--- Comment #27 from MZMcBride <b...@mzmcbride.com> 2011-02-12 05:45:57 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> So it would help developers if it were made clearer here that the thing that 
> is
> wanted is some features enabled or implemented in ParserFunctions, that is,
> there are some basic, necessary functions that are requested here for PF.
> 
> Msybe everyone here understood that, but an ignorant developer (like me) would
> miss it.

It would help if developers read the opening bug comment:

> It is blatantly obvious that *some* form of string parsing functionality is
> needed on WMF wikis - this is most clearly demonstrated by [[Category:String
> manipulation templates]], an entire category dedicated to horrible abuses of
> currently-enabled markup to allow such functionality. However, developers have
> repeatedly stated that StringFunctions is not going to happen (bug 6455), 
> which
> leaves only the option of enabling some actual programming language.

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