Module talk:arguments

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Along with Module:math. Imported by User:Mxn for the sake of having a two-line rounding function (which does not even depend on most of this code) for his archive navigation module. I doubt we will ever need this in the dictionary proper. Not nominating Module:yesno, but we seem to have managed without it until now, so it might go as well. Keφr 14:04, 30 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

I'm inclined to say keep, but remove what we don't really need. I think it would be nice to be able to avoid the constant "if x == "" then x = nil end" on all parameters, it does get tedious. I've thought of writing a module like this before. There's also something else I've wanted to add, which is checking arguments for usage, and a global category tracking system.

Checking arguments for usage would mean that each argument that gets used by the module is marked "used", and at the end if any arguments remain unused, this adds a category or error or something like that. That would allow us to find out easily which pages are using modules with mis-typed parameter names, or parameters that aren't actually recognised or supported by the template.

Tracking categories globally would make it much easier for any module to add tracking categories and such. In templates, you can just put a category anywhere and it works, but in modules you can't do that, which is a limitation. —CodeCat 14:21, 30 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

I cannot imagine why we would ever write something that would require Module:math. It mostly wraps basic mathematical functions so that templates can use them: we would probably do most of the work inside modules, making the wrappers unnecessary.

As for Module:arguments… I am unsure what that thing actually does. Looks like some kind of input sanitisation. For now I would prefer to do it directly in the modules which receive a frame. I actually do have one idea for a module for tracking argument usage, categories and errors, but this module would not be of much help there. Keφr 18:38, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Some at the WMF apparently want to integrate this… thing into Scribunto. Either way, we need not keep it here. — Keφr 11:11, 2 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

{{look}} Neither of the nominated modules has found any use in more than a year. CodeCat, your stance now? — Keφr 18:30, 12 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

I think it might as well be deleted. I am considering making a module that fulfills a similar purpose, but I'd be rewriting it from scratch. —CodeCat 18:32, 12 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

• Kept, no consensus to delete, luckily. --Type56op9 (talk) 23:01, 2 June 2015 (UTC)Reply