Hi Jeremy, Thank you for your clarification!
Best wishes Mohammad On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 2:23 PM Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing to bear in mind is that the core has always supported > unrestricted fieldnames for almost all operations. The primary thing that's > changing now is that the switch to the JSON store area allows us to > guarantee that arbitrary fieldnames will be respected over a > save-and-reload cycle. The secondary thing is the removal of the very weak > protections against creating fieldnames containing arbitrary characters. > > Perhaps there a relatively small number of usecases for complex > fieldnames, but some of those use cases are powerful and so seem important. > But even in the absence of important use cases, a very important benefit is > that unrestricted fieldnames make TiddlyWiki significantly simpler to > explain. Every little arbitrary restriction or caveat adds to the > conceptual load for people learning TiddlyWiki. > > For me, one of the most important consequences is that we can encode > variable name/value pairs as fields. For example, in the new publishing > framework that is under development we represent a publishing job as a > configuration tiddler that specifies the template to be used, the filter > identifying the tiddlers to be output, and a collection of variables to be > provided to the rendering. The variables are expressed as fields named > "var-foo", where "foo" is the name of the variable, and the field value is > the value for the variable. > > It's a simple and flexible approach that wouldn't be possible without > loosening the restrictions on field names. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > jer...@jermolene.com > https://jermolene.com > > On 17 Jun 2021, at 10:42, Mohammad Rahmani <mohammad.rahm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Like Mario, for me it is not clear what will be the benefit to have such > liberty in naming fields! > I think Tiddlywiki is growing organically! Sometimes you need to see good > and consistent logic to be able to write better code to understand and > maintain! > So, while I am not against the new feature in TW 5.2.0 but I really like > it, we are going toward a more consistent, easier to learn and easier to > maintain grammar and syntax! > > > > Best wishes > Mohammad > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:27 AM PMario <pmari...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Let me be more specific eg: >> >> >So, the field values could be a relationship between the current tiddler >> and those other tiddlers. For example: >> > >> >title: Adam >> >Barbara:mother >> >Caesar:father >> >David:friend >> >> You mentioned that having upper-case letters in the field names can help >> to solve the "relationship problem". .. >> >> I ask: Where is the difference from a setting below and your suggestion? >> >> title: adam >> barbara: mother >> caesar: father >> david: friend >> >> There is no difference. The setting in the example has been there since >> v5.1.0 .. and the problem isn't solved. ... >> So as I wrote: Having more possibilities in the field names won't solve >> anything. 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