On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]> wrote: > I too don't understand precisely why string functions are so discouraged. I > saw extremely complex templates built just to do (with a high server load I > suppose in my ignorance...) what could be obtained with an extremely simple > string function. >
This seems like it comes up every few months. I think the prevailing opinion on why StringFuncs wasn't ever going to be enabled was think wikimarkup has been bastardized enough as is and StringFuncs would send the wiki into the next circle of markup syntax hell as it would be giving editors more rope to hang themselves with. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
