Thread:Extension talk:Scribunto/Need a page-wide global table/reply (4)

This is what was said about conditional templates like  (that there would never be a "proper" method) but when people started using that and related templates to the point where pages were taking whole seconds to render minds were changed and Parser functions were born.

Then templates got complicated and Scribunto arrived.

Someone is going to construct a horrible hack which will persuade the developers that providing a "proper" method is far safer and less headache-inducing, you watch…