To pitch in, many many many mediawiki run sites are DEFIANTLY
something that regex would be bad to make impossible to type.
Also, first thing that came to mind for ME, was URLS - most URLs
have /something/like/this.ext in them - that would be tons of extra
code to make it not apply within URLs...
On a sidetopic, I'm having trouble submitting things to this list
unless I'm replying to something like this - I've tried to send at
least 15 notes to this list, and they won't go that I can tell,
unless people have completely ignored all of them so far...
On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:30:09PM -0400, Pedro de
Medeiros wrote:
On 4/27/06, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
This
thread has gotten so dense that I can no longer discern
what the
topic is, much less who's on which side. If anyone sees fit to
continue it, I suggest they start by enumerating those two things.
Not sure what you mean by 'dense'. My "side" of the thread is
just that
I get agitated at illogical/fallacious arguments like "let's not use
slashes for italics -- they look like regular expressions."
That's all.
According to the principle of least astonishment, if someone types
something between /slashes/ in a wiki document, he doesn't expect it
to turn into regular expressions to do some unobvious pattern
matching
when "commit" is pressed. So I agree with you.
See my other message: the actual issue is when people *type an example
of a regular expression into a wikipage*. While that may not happen
much on Wikipedia, remember that Not All Mediawikiae Are Wikipedia, a
rule that's pertinent when discussing this category of topic.
Cheers,
-- jra
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally
read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?
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