On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Michael Daly<[email protected]> wrote: > 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}).
You can clone a template multiple times to effectively create recursion of a finite maximum depth. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
