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From our experience, the two character approach is less error prone and easier to read. Three characters over two characters might just seem like a small overhead, but if you consider that you might have to use it quite frequently it quickly becomes annoying. The only reason why we choose three curly braces for [[nowiki]] and two for [[images]], was that people, except from programmers maybe, will use images more frequently than nowiki markup. Moreover, if we would like to allow extensibility, the image syntax might fall into the block syntax categorisation as well. Consider this example, where someone extends the image syntax with meta tags:
From our experience, the two character approach is less error prone and easier to read. Three characters over two characters might just seem like a small overhead, but if you consider that you might have to use it quite frequently it quickly becomes annoying. The only reason why we choose three curly braces for [[nowiki]] and two for [[images]], was that people, except for programmers maybe, will use images more frequently than nowiki markup. Moreover, if we would like to allow extensibility, the image syntax might fall into the block syntax categorisation as well. Consider this example, where someone extends the image syntax with meta tags:
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