+
+> How is having this variable for showing a count of the comments
+> better (or more forum-ish) than the COMMENTSLINK variable which
+> includes a count and a link to the comments, and is already displayed
+> in inlinepage.tmpl?
+>
+> `num_comments` will never return undef.
+>
+> I see no need to add a second pagetemplate hook.
+> The existing one can be added to. Probably inside its `if ($shown)`
+> block.
+>
+> It may also be a good idea to either combine the calls to `num_comments`
+> used for this and for the commentslink,
+> or to memoize it. I'm thinking generally memoizing it may be a good idea
+> since the comments for a page will typically be counted twice when it's
+> inlined.
+> --[[Joey]]