[pmwiki-users] Re: random musings

[chr at home.se]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> Some random musings and questions to see if anyone has comments,
> ideas, or suggestions...
> 
> 
> 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.

Definitely.


> 2. Wildcards 
> Conditional markup needs a bit of work.  I'd like to work wildcards
> ('*' and '?') into conditionals and pagelists somehow, but I can't 
> seem to come up with the proper names for the options.  Currently 
> we have available
> 
>     (:if group Profiles:)        # page is in Profiles group
>     (:if name HomePage:)         # page is named "HomePage" (in any group)
>     (:if match <pattern>:)       # page's name matches pattern (a regexp)
>     (:pagelist group=Profiles:)  # pages in Profiles group
>     (:pagelist list=normal:)     # pages matching "normal" selection

Looking at the 

> 
> One option is to just allow wildcards directly on "group" and "name"
> values in conditionals, so that

Not sure it matters, but as the wildcards are used below, maybe the word 
"glob pattern" is useful for the syntax?

As for the the (:if match <pattern>:), something I always find annoying 
with regular expressions is that I don't know which blody variant that's 
being used... Of course, if we just specify/document that I'm happy...

/C

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