870379 - Rename "templates" to "macros"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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Let's rename the "template" feature in MDN to "macro." To do this, we need to update code that refers to them by the old name, and update existing KumaScript documentation.

Apparently the term "macro" is used already in some context within KumaScript, but the users of MDN weren't aware of this. Let's uniformly simply refer to these as "macros" and "macro invokations" or "macro calls".

What problems would this solve?
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This will make it easier for us to introduce boilerplate content insertion later under the name "template"; that's a more standard use of the term "template".

Who would use this?
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All MDN macro nee template users.

What would users see?
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I presume we would rename the Template: "namespace" to "Macro:", and existing docs and references to the term "template" in-site would be revised.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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No real usage changes, I think.

Is there anything else we should know?
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The big trick is that I assume we would change the KumaScript "template" function to "macro"; this will involve updating some existing KumaScript code.

Comment 1

[ali spivak]

I'm not sure this is worth the effort.