Hi Jean-Pierre, This is quite common in other programming languages! It is also possible in TW! Put all those sub-macros in another tiddler say $:/jean/macros/utility NOT tagged with $:/tags/Macro In the main macro after definition line (header) \import $:/jean/macros/utility
That's all! There are some good hints in TW-Scripts. Best wishes Mohammad On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 4:13 AM Jean-Pierre Rivière < [email protected]> wrote: > In a tiddlers tagged as #:/tags/Macro there is a public macro. It requires > other macros to achieve its goals, but these macros have no business being > used elsewhere. > > If I declare these macros in the same tiddler, they are exported. Bad :-( > To mitigate that, I have their name beginning with an underscore, meaning > to me not to use them elsewhere. > > But if two differentss macros tiddler both define their own _subMacro, > what _subMacro would be called? the one in the same tiddler or maybe yes, > maybe not, we can't say. This is the real problem. > > same question if my macro tiddler has _myStuff macro and a non macro > tiddler define a macro also called _myStuff and use it: which one would be > called? That's a variation from the previous question. > > I know I can have _mySuff macro into a separate non macro tiddler, and > \import it within my macro tiddler. That way my macro tiddler is 100% > functionaal and _myStuff is not exported but creating another tiddler is a > problem in itself: it's yet another tiddler, it's not that a good idea > because it's only there for a single tiddler, and I would need to have a > name for it. It would complexify my naming convention which is already a > lengthy paper... and I would have to decide which idea is the one I shall > get. to be honest, my macro fubar for the foo matter is in > $:/user/foo/macros/fubar. So where should _sub4fubar be ? > $:/user/foo/macros/fubar/private would do but then $:/user/foo/macros/fubar > would both be a file and a directory, whis is a no go. So no way to store > anything below the macro name. $:/user/foo/privateMacros/fubar perhaps? > or $:/user/foo/private/macros/fubar ? I could have some macro for a bar > filter in $:/user/foo/private/filters/fubar but then I don't have the same > meaning for macros there than in the $:/user/foo/macros/fubar where > "macros" tells that here are macros but in $:/user/foo/private/macros/fubar > "macros" tells that this concerns a macro tiddler named fubar but could be > whatever, not especially macros (altgough very likely macros). And when the > macro has no sub macros, the naming convention shouuld be the same: do not > complexify 100% for the 10%. This rules out a scheme like > $:/user/foo/macros/fubar/fubar and $:/user/foo/macros/fubar/_sub4fubar > which would otherwise answer the question (but being a very ugly beast). > > A suggestion: could we say that any macro whose name starts by _ or even > __ for compatibility's sake, is not exported even within a macro tiddler? > > -- > 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/fd8f1a78-196c-4508-837e-7c53580563e0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fd8f1a78-196c-4508-837e-7c53580563e0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAAV1gMBQ_q6-%3Dic2qZiN4nxAzY1s0nKeRdPxKnTtpBTuMEquhg%40mail.gmail.com.
