On 4/14/06, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've never found adding a space before the colon
at the end of a sentence
fragment to be easier to read, either.
It's not just literal spaces, but *any* whitespace (carriage returns,
tabs, etc). So you could do, for example:
{{#if
:<string>
|<then result>
|<else result>
}}
Note also that the result strings are also trimmed of whitespace, so
the CR/LF are ignored.
So, it should be called "#ifdef:" to match
ingrained expectations. Could
"#if:" be quickly retired?
#if is shorter which is probably why it'll be kept as-is.
Also, "#ifexpr:" just showed up in the
documentation today, so you'll
forgive me for not knowing about it. And wouldn't we just use
"#ifexpr: X = 0" otherwise?
I proposed it on the talk page a little while ago (which is where most
discussion is going on right now). Yes, you could use #ifexpr as you
describe I suppose. =) I was mostly thinking of situations where a
template would return 1 or 0 for true or false (see
[[en:Template:IsLeapYear]]).
"#ifeq:" is for matching strings, not
against "0". See what I mean
about ingrained expectations?
Everything is a string. You could use #ifeq or #ifexpr (though I
suspect #ifeq would be faster as far as CPU resources are concerned).
-L