On 06/01/2009, at 0:02, Greg L <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I heard about that one. Do you think it is more feasible to fix > Extension:StringFunctions or to just make a new, specialized one? - > Greg >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Neither. You should write your number formatting in PHP as an extension, not in template. Wikitext is supposed to be a markup language, not a programming language, and for this reason we currently have no plans to enable StringFunctions or any similar functionality on Wikimedia sites. This is my understanding of Brion and Tim's position. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Andrew Garrett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
