As a note, this has been merged and will go out with wmf2; I've added it to
Tech/News 41.

J.

On 29 September 2014 23:37, dan entous <[email protected]>
wrote:

> +1
>
> On Sep 29, 2014, at 19:38 , James Forrester <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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