Thread:Extension talk:ParserFunctions/Suggestion: new function ifnot/reply (10)

Your example above is wrong. is NOT the same as. Please double check my presentation of  above. That's precisely the kind of errors I've encountered countless times ;-)

Same goes for. First contributor makes it right, following contributor goes too fast and deletes the extra pipe because he thinks of a mistake.

About your second paragraph, though an interesting point, it is off-topic again...