On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Nick Anderson 
<[email protected]> wrote: 

NA> What would you expect to get when you have a tag without = in it?
NA> "myvar" string => "value", meta => { "inventory", "attribute_name=my 
special inventory thing" };

NA> "inventory_tags" slist => getvariablemetatags("myvar", "inventory");

NA> An empty list?
NA> A list with a single element of empty string? { "" }
NA> Skip defining the variable? <- my preference

The function will fail if the variable doesn't exist. I don't think it
should fail otherwise, since `meta` attributes only get set once.

If you request key "inventory" but there is no tag starting with
"inventory=" then I think you should get an empty list.

Ted

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