Module:Params/ChangeLog

The most important changes in Module:Params are recorded here.

This is the ChangeLog page of Module:Params. All major events in the evolution of the module are recorded here in reverse chronological order.

To test the module's capabilities, please visit the dedicated testcases page.

17th October 2025

2025-10-17T09:29:49+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• (BREAKING CHANGE) Nomenclature standardization: The modifiers † converting_values_to_lowercase, † converting_values_to_uppercase, † converting_names_to_lowercase, and † converting_names_to_uppercase have been renamed to mapping_to_lowercase, mapping_to_uppercase, renaming_to_lowercase, and renaming_to_uppercase
• A bug affecting the empty-name parameter in value_of has been fixed

30th September 2025

2025-09-30T00:14:34+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The new function list_maybe_with_names has been added to the module
• Support for the new s slot – created with the Oxford comma in mind – has been added to the setting modifier
• Code review

15th September 2025

2025-09-15T00:48:03+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The dropping_substack modifier has been added to the module
• Made sure to follow the same criteria that wikitext follows when determining whether a parameter name is numeric or not – for instance, previously {{#invoke:params}} considered |0012= to be a numeric parameter identical to |12=; wikitext however distinguishes the two
• A few minor bugs have been fixed

23rd July 2025

2025-07-23T16:08:46+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• A bug that affected the plain flag in mapping_by_replacing and load_replace_args has been fixed
• The newtab variable in the internal function copy_or_ref_table(), mistakenly declared as global, has been redeclared as local
• A minor bug that affected the module name displayed in concat_and_invoke has been fixed
• A minor bug that affected the error strings generated by with_name_matching, with_name_not_matching, with_value_matching, and with_value_not_matching has been fixed
• The code is now in strict mode

29th June 2025

2025-06-29T00:43:59+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• (BREAKING CHANGE) The † rotating modifier has been renamed to reversing_numeric_names
• Three new modifiers have been added to the module: mapping_by_mixing, renaming_by_mixing, and mixing_names_and_values
• A poor design choice in for_each has been fixed

13th June 2025

2025-06-13T04:15:55+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• A small bug affecting ...|renaming_by_replacing|...|strict|... has been fixed

4th June 2025

2025-06-04T02:47:12+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• Four new modifiers have been added to the module: † converting_values_to_lowercase, † converting_values_to_uppercase, † converting_names_to_lowercase, and † converting_names_to_uppercase

22nd April 2025

2025-04-22T02:37:23+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• (MINOR BREAKING CHANGES) The directives † with_pattern_isep, † with_plain_isep, † with_pattern_psep and † with_plain_psep used by parsing and reinterpreting have been renamed respectively to splitter_pattern, splitter_string, setter_pattern, and setter_string
• Code review

17th April 2025

2025-04-17T02:12:47+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The excluding_non-numeric_names and excluding_numeric_names modifiers have been added to the module
• Code review

14th April 2025

2025-04-14T18:22:41+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The coins and unique_coins functions have been added to the module
• The following modifiers have been added to the module: new, parsing, reinterpreting, combining_by_calling, snapshotting, remembering, entering_substack, pulling, detaching_substack, leaving_substack, merging_substack, flushing
• Bug fix: Force string conversions in mapping_by_invoking and renaming_by_invoking (see Module talk:String § Protected edit request on 18 October 2024)
• Code review

1st October 2024

2024-10-01T18:56:19+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The providing and grouping_by_calling modifiers have been added to the module
• Code review

25th September 2024

2024-09-25T00:44:58+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The reassorted, mapping_by_replacing and renaming_by_replacing modifiers have been added to the module
• Support for the pattern flag has been added to the with_*_matching class of modifiers
• Code review (filling_the_gaps: made sure that the maximum number of available parameters is never exceeded)

3rd June 2024

2024-06-03T14:20:21+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• (BREAKING CHANGES) The † mapping_blindly_by_calling, † mapping_blindly_by_invoking, † renaming_blindly_by_calling and † renaming_blindly_by_invoking modifiers have been removed; the same functionalities have now been moved to mapping_by_calling, mapping_by_invoking, renaming_by_calling, and renaming_by_invoking (this breaks compatibility with the former syntax); these modifiers now support a call style flag – please see the documentation for more information
• The renaming_by_calling, renaming_by_invoking, mapping_by_magic, and mapping_by_magic modifiers have been added to the module
• Code review

31st May 2024

2024-05-31T13:05:34+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The imposing and discarding modifiers have been added to the module
• Support for the let keyword (for passing non-sequential parameters) has been introduced in the mapping_* and renaming_* class of modifiers
• Code review:
  • The public interface has been moved to a metatable in order to avoid the duplication of functions
  • A different strategy has been adopted in order to avoid nesting infinite calls
  • The presentation of the code has had minor adjustments

29th May 2024

2024-05-29T18:31:36+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• A different policy has been adopted for zero and negative parameter names directly passed to call_for_each_group (i.e. numerical argument names below 1 will be decreased by one unit, exactly like it happens for captured numerical prefixes)
• In case of collisions during † renaming_blindly_by_calling and † renaming_blindly_by_invoking, renamed parameters will now prevail over unchanged parameters
• Code review

27th May 2024

2024-05-27T23:44:18+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The call_for_each_group function and the filling_the_gaps modifier have been added to the module
• Code review

18th May 2024

2024-05-18T13:06:25+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• Three new modifiers – clearing, † rotating and sorting_sequential_values – have been added to the module
• The † mirroring and † reversing modifiers have been indefinitely removed (in the code they have been respectively renamed to pivoting and mirroring and commented out)

17th May 2024

2024-05-17T09:03:49+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• Support for the strict flag has been added to the with_*_matching class of modifiers

12th May 2024

2024-05-12T19:26:30+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• (BREAKING CHANGES) Modifiers † mapping_values_by_calling, † mapping_values_by_invoking, † mapping_values_blindly_by_calling and † mapping_values_blindly_by_invoking have been renamed to mapping_by_calling, mapping_by_invoking, † mapping_blindly_by_calling, and † mapping_blindly_by_invoking
• Seven new modifiers – cropping, purging, backpurging, † reversing, † mirroring, † renaming_blindly_by_calling and † renaming_blindly_by_invoking – have been added to the module
• The all_sorted modifier has now switched to natural sort order
• Code review

30th January 2024

2024-01-30T11:01:51+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The setting modifier now supports the l runtime variable for assigning a last iteration delimiter

15th January 2024‎

2024-01-15T17:54:02+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• Four new modifiers – † mapping_values_by_calling, † mapping_values_by_invoking, † mapping_values_blindly_by_calling, and † mapping_values_blindly_by_invoking – have been added to the module
• One new function – concat_and_magic – has been added to the module
• Minor code review

27th September 2023‎

2023-09-27T10:29:14+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The self function has been added to the module

20th July 2023‎

2023-07-20T01:39:44+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The logic of modifiers with_name_matching, with_name_not_matching, with_value_matching and with_value_not_matching has been extended
• General code review

15th July 2023‎

2023-07-15T05:38:35+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• One new modifier – all_sorted – has been added to the module
• General code review

14th July 2023‎

2023-07-14T09:33:47+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• Two new modifiers – squeezing and trimming_values – have been added to the module
• General code review

12th July 2023‎

2023-07-12T07:19:06+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The magic_for_each and magic_for_each_value functions have been added to the module
• The setting modifier has been added to the module
• Structural changes in all iterating functions
• (BREAKING CHANGES) The † trimmed modifier has been renamed to cutting in order to keep the trimmed keyword reserved for referring to leading and trailing spaces that surround values
• Breaking change in the list function: {{{1}}} and {{{2}}} have been swapped
• General code review

10th July 2023‎

2023-07-10T18:10:50+00:00 (diff, permanent link)

Changes:

• The value_of function has been added to the module
• Code review

9th July 2023‎

2023-07-09T20:29:22+00:00 (permanent link)

The first draft of Module:Params is out.