[pmwiki-users] Simple math

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Sep 20 10:49:15 CDT 2006


On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:42:18AM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> --- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:05:50PM +0200, Tom
> > Lederer wrote:
> > > Is there a way to do some quick math in a wiki
> > page?
> > > 
> > > Like (4*5+8-9)/20 ?
> > 
> > At the moment, no.  It needs a markup to make it
> > work.
> 
> Any chance you would consider introducing a parallel
> to logical expressions for math?
> 
> (:expr (4*5+8-9)/20 :)
> 
> It could even be implemented the same way the
> conditional extensions recipe was to start with using
> eval and simply allowing the appropriate tokens only.

In the core?  Probably not.  Until I see a lot of
need for it in general use, this really sounds like a
recipe to me.

Pm




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