Hi Stephan I'll respond to the GitHub PRs, but wanted to give a bit of context here.
The first thing is that when I started TW5 it wasn't at all clear to me that I would be able to achieve my primary objective of creating an algebra of tiddlers that was rich enough to support constructing TiddlyWiki's own user interface. The components that you see today were built up gradually over the two or three years from 2011. Part of the process of TW5's development has been a sometimes jumpy process of rethinking prior assumptions - the situation with filters is fairly typical of the development of a number of features: I knew from TiddlyWiki Classic that I wanted a concise notation for structured searching of tiddlers, and so had a basic filter language early on. But initially I was thinking of the filter language as a way to select tiddlers: the results of evaluating a filter would be a list of real, actual tiddlers. Accordingly, the implementation of the early filter operators tended to look up titles to retrieve the underlying tiddler, and would silently return nothing if the target tiddler didn't exist. (The each.js and field.js operators are a good example). Gradually (and this is really the point of these remarks), I realised that it was better to think of the filter language as a generic way to manipulate lists of values, and only have a small set of distinct operators that treat the values in those lists as tiddler titles. The trouble we have now is, as ever, backwards compatibility. We've got nearly a decade of wikis in the wild that depend on the existing behaviour. We can and do change the behaviour of filters but it's generally by extending them with special new modes and the like. We certainly can't change existing behaviour just because it is inconsistent or confusing. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston jer...@jermolene.com https://jermolene.com > On 15 Feb 2018, at 07:26, Stephan Hradek <stephan.hra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please check #3117 / PR #3122 as I do not think this proposal is matching how > other operators work. > > Discussion in this thread should stop (or better: not start) but go to > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywikidev/-GYFcugEoHQ > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/79804c40-ce72-4237-a2b4-cfe1503e7e7b%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/009C14B7-BA84-4E2C-9A87-5E5B8D33D90C%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
