On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
Note that {{val}} uses at least a few strange HTML-specific hacks,
like using CSS instead of space characters to create spaces between
the digit groups (for copy-paste purposes). Something that would work
like {{val}} would be considerably different from number_format().
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