@btheado Thanks, yes the new operator is very helpful, but my complaint/“identification of an opportunity” was that pre-titlelist-ification was needed and couldn’t be done inline (without pre/external help).
@jypre Thanks, actually that’s a good reminder again that you can now feed parameters into macros within a filter, that will probably be the easiest way to remedy all my existing code, thanks.
@saqimtiaz Thanks, I think mostly I need to get over my (probably) irrational aversion to pre-variables. I’m generally obsessed with performance and low-overhead so I try to strip things down as much as possible. All of my actions for my outliner are like 10 <$set> steps and then one <$action-setfield step, and I’m trying to streamline as much as possible. On that note I’ll have to go back and find that post from a while ago on the <$vars> vs. <$set> performance debate. I will still need a lot of sets because I’m building variables on top of other variables with a lot of regex parsing, but I know there are many of the <$set>s that I can change to <$vars> if they’re better.