User blog comment:Ducksoup/Why Wikia Evolves/@comment-24473195-20150619235105/@comment-5558012-20150620134924

Parser functions are more straight forward than Lua. I use them because they are easier to use than Lua (I'm not talking about templates that have parser functions inside parser functions inside some more parser functions). I looked at the Lua used to replace an if statement and I have no idea what it does. I tried using it (copied it over and created the template) and it doesn't work for named parameters (I also seen that you recently removed the part about the template citing it was "unnecessary.") Then how do I use it? If you want more people to use Lua, it's use (especially for common, "simple" stuff) needs to be  specific.