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explain the cycle that is broken by "map and inline can't generate wikilinks"

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@ -97,3 +97,16 @@ The [[ikiwiki/directive/listdirectives]]` directive doesn't register a link betw
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>>>> (I'll interpet Joeys silence as a good sign ;-). Is there a difference between "link to it" and "path to it"? If we assume autoindex produces bonafide "first class" links there shouldn't be one!?
>>>> So far your idea sounds great, says me without any knowledge of the source. I'll try to grok it. Is there a medium for silly questions, a wiki seems not the right fit for that? -- [[holger]]
>>>>> Yes, there *has* to be a difference between a first class wikilink
>>>>> and the thing to which `map` and `inline` can contribute.
>>>>> `map` and `inline` use a pagespec to decide what they include,
>>>>> and pagespecs can't be evaluated and get a correct answer until the
>>>>> set of links has been collected, because their results often depend
>>>>> on the set of links. Otherwise, suppose you had a page `foo` whose only
>>>>> contents were this:
>>>>>
>>>>> \[[!inline pages="!backlink(foo)"]]
>>>>>
>>>>> If `inline` generated links, it would inline exactly those pages that
>>>>> it doesn't inline. That's never going to end well :-) --[[smcv]]