Brion Vibber wrote:
> The ideal markup situation for the article namespace is that markup
> shouldn't even *be* exposed to most users. A long-term goal is migration
> to a more WYSIWIG-like editing experience -- to which one of the
> potential stumbling blocks has been "but how will we do templates, which
> currently are built with our horrifying wiki markup?"
Since templates forbid looping, whatever manages it can't be considered
a programming language (missing iteration in {sequence, selection,
iteration}).
Perhaps we should consider this a markup problem and not a programming
problem. If templates have styles (not to be confused with CSS concepts
necessarily) then we just describe the template instead of program the
template. {{{var}}} can become something like content: in CSS.
Conditionals are... interesting. Apply style x if the condition
satisfied else apply style y (.e.g display: "nicely"; vs display: none;)
Just an idea...
Mike
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