2009/9/25 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: > However powerful it is, I'm not sure we can really rule out future > incompatibility as you suggest by simply stating that we can easily > forwardport. This feature is intended to hack a fix on top of the usability > issues inherent in templates. Every time we have a discussion about the > pitfalls of wikitext the center of this discussion is templates. Even > without parser functions they are turing complete - with them it is a > complete usability disaster. So it seems that when we finally get around to > developing a consensus about the changes we want in wikitext, there will be > widespread agreement that we need to change templates. But so far, without > any clear strategy on that front, we have no idea what those changes will > be. > It's important to separate template *calls* from template *implementation*: only the latter involves ParserFunctions and all that other ugliness. Even if and when we do completely redo the way templates are *written* on the inside, the way they're *called* from the outside would probably not change significantly, nor would the concepts of parameters and types. This means redoing template syntax does not require any changes to the XML format.
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