[pmwiki-users] random musings

[H. Fox]

On 12/16/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 1. Page variables
> The new {$...} and {pagename$...} syntax works great, and I think
> it even makes the code more efficient.  It's likely a keeper.

That's good news.

> 2. Wildcards
[...]
> But how to match both group and name simultaneously?  For consistency
> with other markups, do we just use "fullname"?  (Somehow I think it's
> a big ugly.)
>
>     (:if fullname PmWiki.A* :)   # pages starting with "A" in the PmWiki group
>     (:pagelist fullname=2005.Blog* :)  # "Blog*" pages in the 2005 group
>
> Hmm, I guess "fullname" isn't so bad.  Lists of wildcards will also be
> allowed
>
>     (:pagelist fullname=2005.Blog*,2006.Blog*:)
>
> as well as negations
>
>     (:pagelist fullname=-*.HomePage,-*.RecentChanges:)

I may be missing something, but why not just stick with name, even for
full names?

    (:pagelist name=2005.Blog*,2006.Blog*:)

    (:pagelist name=-*.HomePage,-*.RecentChanges:)

    (:if name 200?.HomePage:)     # page is named "HomePage" in any group
                                  # named after a year in this century (*)

    (:if name SomeGroup.A*:)      # any page starting with "A" in the
                                  # SomeGroup group

Hagan

(*) Actually, 200? would not match last year in this century (2100)
and would match the final year of the last century (2000).  :-)