Feed variables into other variables (limit scope of variables) about homebrewery HOT 5 OPEN

I anticipate that sometimes authors will want a variable insertion to occur dynamically, and other times will want the value captured as at time of declaration.

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Wasn't this already discussed pretty heavily when designing the specs for variables? I feel like we decided to avoid this exact thing for a specific reason, but I can't recall at the moment.

In any case, something like this would involve basically a full rewrite of the Variables extension. I would put this at low priority for now.

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Done for two main reasons: 1) to avoid recursion hell, and 2) to facilitate imperative interpreting.

Both are still good reasons.

The functionality suggested by $[TraitMagicResistance][Sally] shouldn't even involve further varnames. As Gazzok89 suggests, the functional form declaration should be more like [TraitMagicResistance]: The $1 has magic resistance. .. where the $1 represents to first fed-in parameter. This way each parameter can be re-used in the same template too, like $1 and $2 were sitting in a tree. $1 was hopeful, $2 not so much. $3 observed from a distance.. (The syntax suggested here is only a placeholder).

Whether these are called template variables, or madlib variables, or function variables .. eh, whatever works.

In any case, I agree .. we should let variables sit for a while before attempting to extend it. Let the bugs shake out. And remain open to a possible rewrite as a solution.

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Yeah, I felt this was likely discussed heavily but I just couldn’t point to where, and I wasn’t really involved in variables discussion (by choice).

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Talked about this again in gitter. Giving some more examples of how little templates could be made:

[heroBlock]:
{{hero
## $[hero]
$[tagline]
}}



[hero]:Superman

[tagline]:Man of Steel

$[heroBlock]



[hero]: Batman

[tagline]: The Dark Knight

$[heroBlock]

or

[lootTable]:
##### Loot Table
| Item              | Roll  |
|:------------------|:-----:|
| $[loot1]          | 1     |
| $[loot2]          | 2     |
| $[loot3]          | 3     |
| $[loot4]          | 4     |
| $[loot5]          | 5     |
| $[loot6]          | 6     |



[loot1]: Pair of dice

[loot2]: Bottle of water

[loot3]: One torn sock

[loot4]: A magic card

[loot5]: A spoon

[loot6]: Twelve turtle doves


$[lootTable]

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