In my view, either the TiddlyWeb filters are exactly the same as the TiddlyWiki ones, or they are not. So the options 1,2, and 4 are just variations are a theme. "3 or not 3?", that is the question.
I also think that something similar to TiddlyWiki syntax, but not exactly the same is worse than something completely different. So I think I'd go for a different syntax, and having made that decision, I'd just adopt a Boolean syntax as Eric suggests. Martin 2009/4/29 Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>: > > For those that are interested, the motivation for the design of the > TiddlyWiki filter syntax was to make it compatible with the existing > syntax for the DefaultTiddlers tiddler. Previously, DefaultTiddlers > had been defined as a whitespace-delimited list of tiddler titles to > be opened at startup, with the wiki-ish convention that tiddler titles > containing spaces would be quoted with square brackets. Hence, you get > DefaultTiddlers that look like this: > > ---- > MyFirstTiddler > [[Another Tiddler]] > ---- > > The use-case I wanted to support was things like being able to specify > in DefaultTiddlers things like "show me the last 10 tiddlers to have > been modified", which frequently cropped up from users interested in > using TiddlyWiki in a blog-like way. Given such an extended syntax, I > could see other places (like the <<list>> macro) where filters might > also be handy. > > The easiest way to do this without introducing a breaking change to > the way that DefaultTiddlers was parsed, hence the design that is now > documented on tiddlywiki.org: > > http://tiddlywiki.org/index.php?title=Dev:FilterTiddlers > > Returning to Chris' original question, being an eternal optimist, I > still believe that (3) is feasible, but if we can't manage that in > time for 1.0, I'd have thought that (2) would be the sensible option. > > Cheers > > Jerm > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:29 AM, FND <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> My conclusion from this is that some kind of change needs to happen. >>> My inclination is to experiment with something new >> >> I think some unencumbered exploration in this area would be a good thing. >> As we've seen, trying to mimic TiddlyWiki's behavior doesn't get us very >> far - especially given that the current implementation seems incomplete. >> So if you were to come up with an "optimal" solution without having to >> worry about compatibility, we could compare the two approaches, perhaps >> even revisiting the TiddlyWiki core's implementation. >> >> >> -- F. >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.tiddlywiki.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
