Re: [twdev] Thoughs on simplified syntax

2017-08-07 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mat > On 7 Aug 2017, at 16:55, Mat wrote: > > Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > unify tiddlers and variables. > > Whoaaa! That sounds conceptually huge! > > > Pulling back up to your original question, the issue we'd now have is how to > name those tiddlers that are

Re: [twdev] Re: Thoughs on simplified syntax

2017-08-07 Thread Mat
Jeremy Ruston wrote: > unify tiddlers and variables. > Whoaaa! That sounds conceptually huge! > Pulling back up to your original question, the issue we'd now have is how > to name those tiddlers that are acting as variables. Simple names like > "currentTiddler” wouldn't be great because

Re: [twdev] Re: Thoughs on simplified syntax

2017-08-07 Thread Jeremy Ruston
Hi Mat Excellent, you're following a line of thought that has preoccupied me for a long time. Firstly, I think about this stuff in a cloud headed “what comes after TiddlyWiki 5?” both because these sorts of changes are often challenging from a backwards compatibility perspective, and more

[twdev] Re: Thoughs on simplified syntax

2017-08-07 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Matt Very useful thoughts for someone like me. One thing missing, at least I can't find one, is a CRIB sheet of existing syntax ... something along the lines of those that Tobias did for Filters and WikiText examples. My single biggest issue as an idiot is that I forget what all the variant