[twdev] Re: Thoughs on simplified syntax

2017-09-09 Thread TonyM
See also a similar discussion on Fields https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywikidev/iw59ThjJID8 On Thursday, 10 August 2017 10:35:01 UTC+10, TonyM wrote: > > Can I please plead the members of this thread consider my post in the > other group that is related, although it may not be obvi

[twdev] Re: Thoughs on simplified syntax

2017-08-09 Thread TonyM
Can I please plead the members of this thread consider my post in the other group that is related, although it may not be obviouse at first. [TW5] Desirable core additions https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/tiddlywiki/AduZlD79FZo Regards Tony On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 11:54:52 AM

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 w

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 impo

[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 b