Thread:Extension talk:SubPageList/Number of subpages?/reply

Why a magic word and not some parser function? When implementing such a thing, it'd be not hard to have several variations on that, for example the number of direct parent pages, the number of non-direct subpages, or the number of all pages in the tree. This could be done w/ a parser function and some parameters, but not a magic word.

In any case, what's the exact usecase? Convince me this feature would be useful to have :)