[TYPO3-core] More strict convention for typoscript naming

Dominique Feyer dfeyer at ttree.ch
Fri Jul 13 20:11:59 CEST 2012



Jigal van Hemert wrote:
>
>> 2) move functionality to the new standard based attributes / functions
>> 3) deprecate the old ones in 6.0
>
> Deprecation is meaningless in real life. Nobody gives a (...) and will
> continue to use the old syntax. Why? Because current sites still work,
> because the books still use the old syntax, because thousands of blogs
> and snippet collections still use the old syntax.

I agree with this point

>
>> 4) remove the old ones in 6.2 or 7.0 to give some more time
>
> It doesn't matter how much time you give. People will still be surprised
> when the site suddenly doesn't work. Their books say it should be done
> this way, the snippets on site X say it should be correct (and the 30
> comments of the snippet praise the author for the great snippet).

This point too, we need to support the "old" synthax too.

>
>> What do you think?
>
> I think the energy which would have to go into purifying the syntax
> could better be spend in areas where TYPO3 needs improvement.

I think that consistancy in what is a central piece of TYPO3 is an 
important improvement.

Bests

Dominique Feyer


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