[Pmwiki-users] Variable names

Jonathan Scott Duff duff
Mon Oct 18 08:19:30 CDT 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:40:59AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 07:50:23AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > unless all these names have been absolutely cast in stone (and they
> > may very well be), i *implore* you to change them to more meaningful
> > and relevant names.  as options, the current group and page name might
> > be represented by
> >   $CurrentGroup
> >   $CurrentPage
> 
> These are too long--variables that are used frequently (and $Group and
> $Name are by far the most commonly used items in templates) should
> be short and easy to remember.  Also, $CurrentPage itself would be 
> confusing -- does it refer to just the name component of the page or 
> the page's full name?  I'm very likely to leave $Name and $Group as
> they are, although I might switch to $FullPageName instead of $PageName.

I'll just note that I too dislike $Name.  For reasons similar to why you
dislike the term "user" in fact  :)  

In a system where you have well-defined concepts of pages and groups,
$Group makes sense, but $Name does not. I suggest $Page instead.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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