greg_l_at_wikipedia wrote:
> As I understand it, there is rightfully little interest in the
> developer community to write a new parser function for every single
> template need to come along.
>
> Therefore, when it comes to a template like {{val}}, which now
> generates rounding errors about 5–10% of the time because of the math-
> based parser functions it must use, it would be nice if the template-
> authoring community could have a character-counting parser function
> that is not only suitable for {{val}}, but which could be a general -
> purpose parser function that could be used for a great variety of
> purposes.
I would rather have an application-specific number formatting function,
rather than a character-counting function. It could be similar to PHP's
number_format(). Wikitext is a terrible programming language, slow to
execute and hard to understand. It's much better to write in PHP.
-- Tim Starling
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