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Help talk:Parameter default

Last-but technique broken

The Last-but technique doesn't work here, but it does in Meta.

Some missing templates need to be added.

Mathglot (talk) 17:51, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

[[Meta:Help:Parameter default]] authors and history

  • 05:59, 16 March 2006 User:217.251.173.77 (→Limitation - section was perfectly unclear and unreadable)
  • 10:41, 17 February 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (→Last-but technique - *<code><nowiki>{{lastbut0|5=5|8=8|2=2}}</nowiki></code> gives {{lastbut0|5=5|8=8|2=2}} (finds maximum of a list of numbers))
  • 10:27, 18 January 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (→Expressions containing a parameter, with default - The latter may be confusing in contexts where "empty" and "indefined" are treated as equivalent.)
  • 23:49, 1 January 2006 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (The same template can also contain several expressions [a<sub>i</sub>[b<sub>i</sub>|]|f<sub>i</sub>([b<sub>i</sub>])]. By choosing all a<sub>i</sub> equal we need only one "a=" in)
  • 11:19, 29 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (it can be shielded from the user by putting the template call inside another template; on projects where server-strain is a concern this is not desirable)
  • 11:02, 29 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (while normally a parameter specification in a template call represents a choice the user of the template has, the need to specify "a=" is an unfortunate technical requirement imposed on the user of th)
  • 10:43, 29 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (If the result, f([b]) or the empty string, is for final display only, i.e., not for use in expressions for template names, parameter names, parameter values, page names in links, etc., an alternative)
  • 01:43, 29 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (→Limitation - Note that "|" can be avoided in table syntax by applying HTML coding for the table (element "<nowiki><table></nowiki>").)
  • 01:41, 29 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (→Limitation - Note that "|" can be avoided in table syntax if HTML coding with "<nowiki><table></nowiki>" is applied.)
  • 01:40, 29 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (→Limitation - Note that "|" can be avoided in table syntax if HTML coding with "<table>" is applied.)
  • 01:56, 12 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (The default part can only contain "|" as part of full template, parameter or link syntax within it.)
  • 01:53, 12 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (In the case of multiple default parts, only the first applies: [a|b|c|d] is equivalent with [a|b].)
  • 00:48, 12 December 2005 Meta:User:Patrick (Talk (These results [a] and b can be end results, but they can also be parameter names, parameter values, template names, parts thereof, etc.)