[pmwiki-users] Simple math

[Martin Fick]

--- Dominique Faure <dominique.faure at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:42:18AM -0700, Martin
> Fick wrote:
> > > Any chance you would consider introducing a
> parallel
> > > to logical expressions for math?
> > >
> > > (:expr (4*5+8-9)/20 :)
> 
> BTW, the arrival of PData and the planned core
> enhancements led me to
> the conclusion that I should obsolete the current
> PVE implementation.
> More precisely, I'm thinking I should have
> decorrelated the page
> variables/properties/... part from the functions
> suffixes introduced
> in PVE, to have it working with any data source
> kind. 

I think that would be a great idea, it would remove
the one big issue I have with this very cool recipe.

> IOW, making WikiFormulas.

 Nice. :)

> Don't expect anything soon, even if I already
> explored several
> promising ideas, I'm still on a design/conception
> stage.
> 
> I'm not very kind of using the (:expr ...:) markup
> since it would
> introduce more ambiguities than solving some.
> IMHO, (:eval ...:) would be better.

Sure, eval sounds good too, especially if that were
the way to execute functions maybe?
(:eval function(8+2, 4/3, {$Name}) :)

-Martin


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