Some latteral thinking here but I would emphasis the 5.3.x improvments offer other lateral and innovative ways to handle this. For example it should be quite easy to redefine evans if to a new name, or the opposite, redefine a core $if to another name leaving evans to dominate if already in use. With custom and installable widgets.
- Although I am arguing that we should consider an $if widgets, or by another name BUT develop a more mature solution to justify the adoption of an $if widget, especialy if it clashes with the only effective version that has being available for a long time, in evans plugin. Future backwards compatibility means we should be careful here.
You can see here Further use of $params with $parameters widget a detailed discussion on aspects of the 5.3.x features to pass an arbitary number of parameters from one widget or procedure to another. Just what we need to redefine a widget.
I can forsee an option to choose ones $if widget “provider”.