In this article, the words parameter and variable are synonyms.
A variable name that a Hugo user creates is called a custom variable or a user-defined variable.
The names of Hugo variables (including those specified in config files and front matter)…
can contain
underscores (_) and alphanumeric characters,
must start with
an
underscore (_) or alpha character,
and
must not
contain a dash
character
(-).[2]
User-defined
variables in a layout file must
start with a dollar sign ($).
In
a Hugo config file,
built-in
variables — such as
baseURL,
enableEmoji,
enableInlineShortcodes,
languageCode,
Permalinks,
themes, themesDir,
and
title — are sometimes case sensitive
so I recommend that you specify them using the upper- and
lower-case letters that are specified
in
gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/.
ℹ | The
casing used in
the variable names
enableEmoji,
enableInlineShortcodes,
languageCode,
and
themesDir
is called
camelCase🐫.[3] |
Because of the above and other case-sensitivity issues,
bep, Hugo’s lead developer, recommends
all lower case
snake_case🐍 — for example $this_year and $that_year — for custom variable names. For more about this recommendation, see
discourse.gohugo.io’s
Best practices for naming variables
etc [2020-May].
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-) is “hyphen-minus,” but its proper name is rarely used. Instead, it is usually called “dash,” “hyphen,” or “minus.” Details are at wikipedia.org’s Hyphen-minus.@nm@mathstodon.xyz
or
#InfiniteInk
in it.
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