On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > Doing math in the parser is the wrong solution for this. Give the > users string manipulation functions and save the math for integer only > calculations and sausage making like table layout. Finite precision > math simply can't be guaranteed to produce reasonable results for > non-integer "content math" purpose.
I am happy to agree with you that there would be many uses for string functions, including places related to number manipulation. I don't think that obviates the need for math functions to behave in intuitive ways under as many widely used cases as possible, though. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
