Brar Piening <b...@gmx.de> writes: > On 09.01.2023 at 21:18, Tom Lane wrote: >> * I got rid of a couple of "-et-al" additions, because it did not >> seem like a good precedent. That would tempt people to modify >> existing ID tags when adding variables to an entry, which'd defeat >> the purpose I think.
> I tried to use it sparsely, mostly where a varlistentry had multiple > child items and I had arbitrarily pick one of them. It's not important, > though. I'm curious how you solved this. I just removed "-et-al", I didn't question your choice of the principal variable name. As you say, it didn't seem to matter that much. regards, tom lane