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00915

Description: See PTV-Summary

The following code snippet cause a lot of pain until I tracked it down.

(:Summaryx:A starting point for Developers to both learn and record ''how we do things around here'':)
(:Summaryx:{$:Summaryx}:)
'''[--{$:Summaryx}--]'''

Could the mode of failure be more graceful.

There may still be a recursion problem, see Test.PageTextVariables

Along the lines of (remove # to make functional)

:Tip#tree:{$:Sheldon}
:Sheldon:{$:Tiptree}

PmWiki only deals with the case of a self-recursive page text variable; avoiding indirect recursions isn't supported at the moment. (The theory being that indirect recursions occur a lot less frequently than self-recursions, as well as being a _lot_ harder to detect and prevent.)

Pm

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