Module:Technical reasons explained

local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote')local mHatlist = require('Module:Hatnote list')local mYesno = require('Module:Yesno')local mArguments --initialize lazilylocal p =

function p.technicalReasons (frame) mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') local args = mArguments.getArgs(frame) return p._technicalReasons(args)end

function p._technicalReasons (args) --Return an error if no redirect's provided if not args[1] then return mHatnote.makeWikitextError('no redirect provided', 'Template:Technical reasons', args.category ) end --get maxArg manually because getArgs and table.maxn aren't friends local maxArg = 0 for k, v in pairs(args) do if type(k)

'number' and k > maxArg then maxArg = k end end --If there's only 1–2 arguments, set from to 1 to default things nicely. --Note that if (not args[2]) this doesn't matter either way. local from = maxArg > 2 and 2 or 1 --Structure the forSee table local forSee = mHatlist.forSeeArgsToTable(args, from) --Suppresses defaulting; for-see table rows that would include defaulting --are set to nil. for k, v in pairs(forSee) do if not v.use or #v.pages

0 then forSee[k] = nil end end --Stringify the forSee table or set it nil forSee = #forSee ~= 0 and mHatlist.forSeeTableToString(forSee) or nil local whatRedirects = mYesno(args.prefix) and 'terms beginning with "' .. args[1] .. '" redirect' or '"' .. args[1] .. '" redirects' local lead = string.format('For technical reasons, %s here.', whatRedirects ) local text = table.concat(' ') local options = return mHatnote._hatnote(text, options)end

return p