Michael Daly 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,

Since iteration over a set is frequently desired/needed, assume it will 
exist in a sensible programming language.

As already noted in this thread, horrible hacks for limited-depth 
looping are already in use.

-- brion

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