Jeremy, Just some possibilities;
Alternatives that come to mind are "item", or "instance", "list item", or we could expand to "list-index" or "item-index", but depending on where used "position". Also the work "ordinal" comes to mind as a little more specific. CSS can be used to generate numbers for lists so displayed, but we need this number available for logic. Knowing the first number and total number using count the "ordinal" allows us to detect the first and last instance. This allows one list to contain logic for start/initial and Last/final. Tones On Monday, 26 April 2021 at 01:03:52 UTC+10 Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > I'm not all that crazy about the choice of "index" as the keyword to > handle that. > > To me, index means index to an item in a data tiddler. > > Now index means *that* or *this*. When somebody is referring to index, > in what context? As in data tiddlers, or as in numerically identifiying > <$list> items in a sequence? > > Overloading the word index. That annoys the daylights out of me. > > > Does anyone have any thoughts on an alternative? > > Perhaps “counter”? > > Perhaps it should actually be “counterVariable” for consistency with the > existing “variable” attribute. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/06a3c755-7164-4703-a2eb-325b471dc882n%40googlegroups.com.
