[TYPO3-50-general] TypoScript syntax: Array indexes

[Robert Lemke]

Am 19.07.2007 um 12:40 schrieb Elmar Hinz:

> that's much clearer now. The point is that you want to make a clean  
> decision
> already during parsing.
>
> page.thing = something ???
>
> Your question is: Is this treated as an object porperty or is it an  
> array
> key of an internal object? You don't want to postpone this decision  
> until
> you know about the internals.

If we can be absolutely sure that we don't need to know the complete  
semantics
at parse time, we can keep things like they are of course. So, what  
speaks
against keeping it? My first thoughts are:

   - Syntax highlighting can be done without knowing which objects  
exist, what
     type they're of and what properties they have

   - Autocompletion is probably easier to implement

   - A developer can easier guess what the object model behind looks  
like
     by just reading the TS source, without knowing the object model.
     (is that relevant?)

   - It's way easier to parse and probably faster to parse (no  
reflection involved)

Do you have more?

robert
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