Automatic use of `verb-var` variable

[rickyson96]

AFAIK, one would use {{(lisp)}} to make a dynamic variable inside a request. One main use of this is to use `{{(verb-var some-var)}} here. In fact, I have bunch of those in my verb file.

What do you think about simplifying this, so that we could use {{some-var}} which would use the result of (verb-var some-var)?

One thing that would possibly break is that if anyone relies on {{some-var}} to resolve emacs' variable, but we could side step that by checking emacs' variable when (verb-var some-var) is not found, and if the name clashes, we could use (identity some-var) for emacs' variable instead.

[federicotdn]

Hi! I think this would be some kind of syntactic sugar added on top of code tags - however, I want always code tags to be pure Elisp and nothing else, in order to make Verb's design overall simpler, and helping to avoid surprises.

However, Verb-variables are really nothing special, just a buffer-local alist stored in the verb--vars variable. Verb provides a user-friendly way of setting them and inspecting them, but that's it. If you want something less verbose, you can always use just (setq myvar "hello") and then later {{myvar}} in a code tag - that will work fine!

So in conclusion I appreciate the idea, but it does not fit with my vision of how Verb and code tags work overall.

[rickyson96]

I see. One benefit I can think of when using verb variables is that it doesn't pollute the global variables, hence the feature request. But I get your point.

Thanks for the clarification and thanks for the immensely useful package!

[federicotdn]

No problem! Feel free to suggest other ideas in the future 👍🏻