Re: Handling TRUE,FALSE,NULL,ON,OFF, etc

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004, Mark Rogers wrote:
> messju mohr writes:
> > Tagnames, modifiers and variable-names are all case-sensitive. I see
> > nothing wrong with "true", "null" etc. also being case-sensitive and
> > only accepted in lowercase.
> 
> PHP would disagree with you, in as much as TRUE/FALSE/NULL are valid in PHP,
> even though $x and $X are different. (I know we're talking about Smarty
> syntax, though, not PHP.)

PHP's case-insensitivity sucks. You should see the amount of effort that
goes into making sure that PHP 5 internals still maintain BC in this
area.

> Regarding modifiers,
>     {"xx"|STRTOUPPER} works (ie using a PHP function)
> whereas
>     {""|DEFAULT:"YY"} doesn't.

No, please don't advocate this.

> Given all of this, is there really a good reason _not_ to accept
> TRUE/FALSE/NULL/ON/OFF etc? The performance impact is negligible (and only
> to the compiler).

Is there a really good reason to accept them?

- Andrei

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