[wp-hackers] How to number the paged comments in theme Was: Tutorial for custom Walker_Comment ?

[Andrew Nacin]

>
> I don't believe that will work: the default comment_walker *always* echoes.
>

#10948 is for wp_list_comments()... paginate_comments_links() only relies on
the walker to determine the number of pages required (and even then only
when threading is on, otherwise it uses $wp_query).  It accepts echo=false
without any problem.

Andrew