[wp-hackers] author functions assume global

[David Clark]

>>
>> I started digging into author functions today, and I was surprised to 
>> discover that the author functions assume a globally defined author 
>> id -- very different than category functions
>
> I just added the missing get_ functions that get the value for display 
> by the the_ functions.  I did not alter the data retreival to mirror 
> the category functions.
I just want to be sure that there is not a reason for this difference 
in behavior.