Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Andrew Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > My understanding is that StringFunctions isn't enabled because it > hasn't passed review, and needs improvements before it can, but that > it's planned to eventually merge it into ParserFunctions. Tim > explicitly recommended that string-related functions be added to > ParserFunctions: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455#c36 >
I believe its LoopFunctions[1] and VariablesExtension[2] that have the "programming language" issues, and DynamicFunctions[3], which also has caching problems. [1] <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LoopFunctions> [2] <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VariablesExtension> [3] <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DynamicFunctions> -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
