Re: [SMARTY-DEV] $smarty.const.CONSTANT

That is exactly the problem, look at your example. There is ambiguity of what "." means, catentate or array index? See this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=smarty-dev&m=104585121405535&w=2 I'm open to ideas. Monte On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:53, Paul Lockaby wrote: > Monte Ohrt wrote: > > actually, this is how it works currently in CVS: > > > > Smarty will ONLY allow variables with no special chars without the > > tickmarks. Anything else requires them. > > > > examples: is interpreted as: > > > > $foo <-- $foo > > $foo.bar <-- $foo . '.bar.' > > $foo.bar <-- $foo.bar > > $foo[0].bar[index].tpl <-- $foo[0].bar[index] . > > '.tpl' > > $smarty.foo.bar <-- $smarty . '.foo.bar' > > $smarty.foo.bar <-- $smarty.foo.bar > > > > Hi, > > While I understand how it works, I have to register my dislike for this > syntax. What is stopping us from making variables work similar to the > way they do in PHP, with concatenation outside of the quotes and > whatnot? Like "string".$smarty.foo.bar.".tpl" ? > > ~Paul -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net>