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This idea is also related to my idea of being able to reference parameters pretty much anywhere where one can enter text:

 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/make-substitution-variables-available-everywhere-where-te...

 

As an aside, syntactically speaking using generic text in formulas is tricky. Text with spaces will have to be quoted. What about text with spaces and quote characters? It's not trivial. Certainly variable names should not be allowed to have spaces or any fruity characters in them. There is a reason why this convention is used by all programming languages that I know (Perl, Python. Ruby, C, C++, Javascript, Java, etc)

 

Convenience always has its price. I think that most people who use Revit are intelligent enough to be able to adapt to certain generally accepted conventions for dealing with formulas and code in general. And if they're not then they have no business using those features. They will just shoot themselves in the foot and then start requesting safety features etc.

 

-t