Just for info the gerrit change:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160367/

Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards
Florian

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[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von James Forrester
Gesendet: Montag, 29. September 2014 19:38
An: Wikimedia developers
Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] Removal of Scribunto's "Allow saving code with 
errors" option

On 28 September 2014 20:17, Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scribunto has an option to allow code to be saved even if it contains 
> syntax errors that prevent it from ever working. The original reason 
> for this feature was to make it more convenient to save incomplete code.
> However, in practice, this has never been used for its intended 
> purpose, and users who don't know any Lua are breaking 
> otherwise-functional modules with it. Because of this, and because 
> it's easy enough to save incomplete code by simply wrapping it all in 
> a multiline comment, I plan to remove the option unless objections are raised.
>

​This seems totally reasonable; we already do this with JSON, and I believe 
it's also planned for JS and CSS content types as well. Go for it.

J.
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James D. Forrester
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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