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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:30:22 +0200
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To: Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de>, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Vote] New in initializers
From: nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com (Nicolas Grekas)

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> > > This is not 100% correct, you can have an attribte #[Foo(Foo::class)]
> and
> > > then calling ReflectionAttribute::getArguments would also require to
> > > resolve the type Foo. So this is not different than what could happen
> > right
> > > now already.
> >
> >
> > Despite its name, "::class" doesn't care about class definitions, it
> > just performs a string substitution based on the "namespace" and "use"
> > statements in the current file.
> >
> > In most cases, that happens entirely at compile time, so the following
> > two source files compile identically:
> >
>
> Hah, I realized after sending the example was bad :) I should have used an
> example using actual constants (vs magic ones):
>
> #[Foo(Foo::BAR)]
>
> This would trigger autoloading and resolving during getArguments()
>


Right!

Extending on my proposal, getUninitializedArguments() could return a
ReflectionConstant in place of such values.

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