[TYPO3-hci] typoscript issues

[Andreas Balzer]

Sudara Williams schrieb:
> I'd be interested if you give a few reasons for your thinking.
> 
>>>
>>> Maybe it is worth the few hours to go through the 4.1 source and 'fix'
>>> the inconsistent names by providing consistent aliases.
>> no, I don't think so.
> 
> Why?
mainly because I thought that an automatic solution (case insensitive 
(thx to Joh ;) ) would make more sense. Joh proved that I was wrong.
> 
> I think many people waste many hours due to a lack of consistent naming 
> scheme. How is 5 hours of developer time NOT worth the hundreds of "oh 
> my god, the case was incorrect" errors that newbees make?
Yeah. We should invest this time.

> My only point is that Typo3 5.0 is a long way away, and thousands of 
> people will be using 4.x the next few years.
Hm.. They plan to release a first look at the end of this year, so let's 
see what happens ;)

> My vote is for intelligent defaults - defaults that make sense and are 
> consistent. Allowing any type of casing may be almost as confusing as 
> the current system.

Hm. Intelligent defaults have pros and cons. The best con is, that many 
people are not as intelligent as the people designing an app to be 
intelligent ;)
We should try to set up a sort of plan how we want to integrate those 
changes into T3.

Andreas