[TYPO3-50-general] TypoScript 2.0 - literals and variables

[Robert Lemke]

Hi folks,

last night I've been working a bit on the matching pattern for  
literals and variables in value assignments. Here's an example which  
follows the current definition as found in the documentation:

myObject = Text
myObject.$part1 = "Hello"
myObject.$part2 = "world"
myObject.value = $part1 . " " . $part2 . "!"

The rules for values basically follows the PHP syntax, you have  
variables ($part1), literals (" ") and may concatenate them with a dot.

Now, it turned out that this is a bit difficult to match (although I  
finally managed to create a regex for that). Therefore I thought  
about changing the rules again. What about these examples:

myObject = Text
myObject.$part1 = "Hello"
myObject.$part2 = "world"
myObject.value = "$part1 $part2!"

myOtherObject = Text
myOtherObject.$message = "Hello world!"
myOtherObject.value = $message

That means, we refrain from introducing the "." operator and matching  
the content of what is enclosed by quotes is much easier. And it is  
less typing. On the other hand you must escape the dollar sign if you  
want to use it in a string.

myObject.value = "This surf board costs \$ 950"

Contrary to PHP, I would allow variables in both, strings enclosed by  
double quotes and by single quotes.

myObject.value = "$part1 $part2!"
myObject.value = '$part1 $part2!'

What do you think?

robert

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