User talk:2257/test

Why do you want the absolute value of the day? It will always be positive. Also, use. 00:41, 2 January 2009 (EST)

And why do you have "No" as an option for if it's true? That will cause problems, just leave it undefined. So maybe like this:

Let's see...

Well I'll be booleanized...when the signs are switched, it inexplicably WORKS???? 00:50, 2 January 2009 (EST)


 * Yeah, except that's not what I was trying to do. :p What I was trying to do was make it render anything that happened within so many days of the present. So, for example abs( 28 -7)<2 would return true if 28 is anything 6 through 8.  The "no" thing was just a random thing to make sure that I didn't confuse an error with it returning "false."  I planned to remove it, but when the "abs" operand didn't work, I didn't bother.  Do we have an older version of ParserFunctions?   00:56, 2 January 2009 (EST)


 * Also, I originally did use, but I thought I might be misunderstanding the usage of "abs," so I tried it without. 00:58, 2 January 2009 (EST)


 * Actually though, we wouldn't need abs if it supports, e.g. -2<( 28 -15)<2 01:04, 2 January 2009 (EST)

By the way...how did you get the line of edit to work backwards all the time?? 00:55, 2 January 2009 (EST)
 * hay man i discovered that :(


 * Some Unicode glitch. Look up "Cyrillic Combining Millions." 01:01, 2 January 2009 (EST)

Here, this does what I was intending:

Here's a test, although you can't really see what it does this early in the month. Yes, you'd ideally remove the messages "too large" and "too small." 28 = 28

01:25, 2 January 2009 (EST)

Oh! That was a clever use of absolute value...if only it existed. Mediawiki.org is good at their Help & manual, and there's no mention of absolute value as a function...anyways, that nesting does seem to work. 03:35, 2 January 2009 (EST)


 * Actually, they do mention it, here, (the table to the right, under "Unary") so I was surprised that it didn't work. Is there a way to find out which version of Parser Functions we have?


 * Ah, I see what's going on. You need to install this to make absolute value work.　 05:27, 2 January 2009 (EST)