Hi Mario, Thanks for your efforts at explaining. Yes, I'm coming to a new appreciation. With TW, you can't treat declarations and invocations as a matter of personal style. You need to understand exactly how the substitutions will take place.
So instead of: "death by whitespace?" it's simply: "Dude. Whitespace matters." :-) And it's very much worth learning, because of the results (and power) it can give you. Thanks, Mario. -- Best regards, Daniel On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:25 AM, PMario <pmari...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 7:34:03 AM UTC+1, Daniel Cunningham wrote: >> >> Finally. some observations and questions for you veterans (keeping in >> mind that I'm not at all familiar with the code base yet): >> >> - It kind of "bothered" me that the declaration "looks" like it has a >> "default parameterization", but does not really. In other words, when you >> call the macro, if you don't explicitly supply all parameters, it will >> fail. That seems a bit fragile, right? >> >> Parameters do have default values, if you define them in the macro > \define section. IMO you just forgot the : ... see my other post.. > > >> >> - Death by whitespace: I found out if there's any leading whitespace >> (before the macro definition) the tiddler fails. Also, if there's any >> whitespace in the filter list, it will fail. Again, trying not to seem >> harsh, but it feels rather fragile. Am I being unfair? >> >> macros are TW syntax. So whitespace matters, most of the time. ... macro > definitions have to start at the beginning of the line. Similar to headings > and list syntax. ... It's wikitext ... powerful wikitext ;) > > > >> >> - Is this "macro-ey" stuff kind of like the STL in C++? >> >> In the sense, that macros should abstract away complexity from enduses. > .. yes. > > BUT TW macros are basically "text substitutions" see: > http://tiddlywiki.com/#Macros%20in%20WikiText:%5B%5BMacros% > 20in%20WikiText%5D%5D%20Macros%20Pragma > > >> >> - Is this "fragility" due to the macro mechanism itself? >> >> I'm not exactly sure what you mean here? An example would be nice. ... > Most of the time whitespace matters. > > TW syntax is used to produce formatted text. .. It's no general purpose > programming language. > > have fun! > mario > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/tiddlywiki/0f_9pW6XKb4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/tiddlywiki/b59da3f3-3669-48ef-8403-78b89ae45f4c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b59da3f3-3669-48ef-8403-78b89ae45f4c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CA%2B0jAPiM7_nYusF%3DYukU7pN07tS4qGK59SAC1W60wDWCoh63Ow%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
