[Mediawiki-l] parserfunctions question: evaluate vs. display?

Rolf Lampa rolf.lampa at rilnet.com
Wed Apr 9 02:06:20 UTC 2008


Brion Vibber wrote:
> Daniel Barrett wrote:
>   
>> In a parserfunctions statement like this:
>>
>> {{#if:  {{#some-condition:}}  |  {{#some-big-computation:}} }}
>>
>> if #some-condition is false, which of the following should happen?
>>
>> 1.	#some-big-computation gets fully evaluated, but results are not
>> displayed
>> 2.	#some-big-computation is not evaluated at all
>>     
>
> #2 (logical shortcut).
>
> I can confirm this is how it works in both 1.12 and trunk (1.13 dev branch).
>   

Wow! thank you for this news!  =)

Regards,

// Rolf Lampa



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