2011/1/4 Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com>

> > What a "creative" use of #lst allows, if it is really an efficient, light
> > routine, is to build named variables and arrays of named variables into
> one
> > page; I can't imagine what a good programmer could do with such a
> powerful
> > tool. I'm, as you can imagine, far from a good programmer, nevertheless I
> > built easily routines for unbeliavable results. Perhaps, coming back to
> the
> > topic.....  a good programmer would disrupt wikipedia using #lst? :-)
> >
> Using #lst to implement variables in wikitext sounds like a terrible
> hack, similar to how using {{padleft:}} to implement string functions
> in wikitext is a terrible hack.


Thanks Roan, your statement sound very alarming for me; I'll open a specific
thread about into wikisource-l quoting this talk. I'm doing any efford to
avoid server/history overload, since I know that I am using a free service
(I just fixed {{loop}} template to optimize it into it.source, at my
best...) and if you are right, I've to change deeply my approach to #lst.

:-(

Alex
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