[Qgis-developer] Expression engine functions and naming

[Nyall Dawson]

On 20 June 2014 15:02, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes. When I initially saw $feature and $numfeatures I thought - oh cool
> - I can have access to the feature-record - although - as you said it
> wasn't clear which feature this would be refering to. This naming is
> really sub-optimal and hopefully we can still correct it.
>
> When was this introduced? In 2.4? If yes, there can hardly be any
> content using this and I would propose to correct this today before we ship.
>

It's been around a long time - since October 2012. I think we're stuck
with it for the moment, unless anyone has any novel ways around this?

Nyall