On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Greg L <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm not a developer so it would be great if either of you (Aryeh or
> Mr.Z-man) could explain whether a character-counting parser function
> (or similar tool) is currently available (or could be made) for
> template authors to use. As for "we currently have no plans to enable
> StringFunctions or any similar functionality on Wikimedia sites", why
> would that be a good plan? If it makes sense to Jimbo to have
> character-counting a parser function, and to several template authors,
> and to some editors who rely upon templates that could benefit from
> such tools, then what is wrong a character-counting parser function?
> Or is there something particular about "StringFunctions" that goes
> beyond the straight and narrow requirements of the character-counting
> parser function as required to implement {val} and {delimitnum}?
>
> BTW: Has anyone looked at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_94#Grouping_of_digits_after_the_decimal_point_.28next_attempt.29<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29/Archive_94#Grouping_of_digits_after_the_decimal_point_.28next_attempt.29>
>
> The functionality required is explained there.
>
> Greg L
>
>
Brion outlined his concerns with StringFunctions--when it
was merged with ParserFunctions and he reverted it--back
in r39653. Mainly, the overall package is too memory
intensive as currently written.
-Chad
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/39653
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