"Sam Korn" <smoddy(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:cbffa3750601221340l43d41ab2nf050f04c8b0f9289@mail.gmail.com...
On 1/22/06, Adrian Buehlmann
<adrian(a)cadifra.com> wrote:
[snip]
Do you see me edit-warring over meta-templates? No,
because I know
it's pointless. Nevertheless, I have been trying to create
semantically cleaner alternatives. I think you have missed the fact
that these templates weren't created until well after the template
syntax (I believe they originated on en in April of last year). If
the template syntax was intended to be used in this way, we would have
seen it before now.
This would be because the "default parameter" feature was not initially
available. This feature is the vital linchpin in the "conditional
tricksiness" which has caused all the argument.
Unfortunately it would appear that the "specification documentation" for
this particular feature is embedded in the brain of whoever added it in,
since the appropriate Help page on Meta was not produced until long after
the fact and provides no history or justification for its addition.
HTH HAND
--
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]