[TYPO3-dev] TS compiler

[Elmar Hinz]

>> To make it extendable and to keep the work on semantic low I think, one
>> shouldn't hardecode it all into the compiler but make it read from a kind
>> of configuration file for the semantics. But that requires to define an
>> additional grammer for this configuration file.
> 
> Nice idea. The endless spiral - who verifyes the configuration file ;-)
> Jokes aside - this could prove usefull. Probably something to take into
> account in the design of TS 2.0 or whatever it's called for the T3 5.0 CMS?
> 

Thinking this twice I don't think it belongs into the compiler, but should
be done in a completely separate module. It could be implemented in PHP
checking the generated PHP Array.

The semantics configuration could be done in TS pretty well, looking
similar to this:


objects {
  HTML{
    name = HTML
    optionalProperties {
      value {
        name = value
        required = 0
        dataTypes = string, stdWrap
      }
      
   }
  TEXT {
    name = TEXT
    optionalProperties {
      value {
        name = value
        dataTypes = string
        functions = stdWrap
      }
      dataTypes = stdWrap      
   }
   ...
}

functions {
  stdWrap {
    name = stdWrap
    optionalProperties {
      case {
        name = cases
        dataTypes = cases
      }
      lang {
        name = lang
        ...
      }
      ...
    }
  }
}

dataTypes {
  cases {
    name = cases
    dataTypes{
      enum.values = upper, lower
    }
  }
  enum {
    name = enum
    requiredProperties = values
  }
}



>> Not yet.
> 
> But you actualy plan to do so? :-) I'm interested on an academic level as

Yes. I want to learn writing compilers and this belongs to the stuff I have
to practice.

> well, since I recently took a course in semantics and have written
> compilers before (just in ML which is very nice for compiler generation).
 
:-)


Regards

Elmar