[Typo3-dev] TypoScript 2: a bit of a RFC

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

On 11/30/05, Elmar Hinz <elmar.DOT.hinz at team.minus.red.dot.net> wrote:
> Dimitri Tarassenko wrote:
> >
> >
> > page[10](HTML) {
> > ...
> Hmmm, looks more complicated to me then the original syntax. 4
> additional signs.

The problems with the original syntax are ambiguity and unconventional
use of punctuation (such as round brackets to define a string value
and < as an assignment operator).

The only solution to ambiguity is requiring more explicit syntax. In
real world terms if in

page.10 = HTML
page.10.value = HTML

"=" does 2 different things, there should be 2 different
operators/syntax elements for this. In many cases this will mean more
characters.

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Dimitri Tarassenko