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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reflection API RFC
From: alan@akbkhome.com (Alan Knowles)

A few more ideas for it:)

-  If you stored token start/end then you would be able to do getSource 
for function/method/class.. etc.. (which can do a load file/tokenizer 
and return implode('',array_range(starttoken,endtoken)
- and add the generic methods
loadTokens(); and freeTokens(); so that memory can be managed reasonably 
for them..
* it may also be better to store the token of the doc comment - On some 
of the pear classes the comment code is larger than the PHP code, and 
would be quite an overhead... - just make it throw an exception if you 
forgot to load the tokens for it..

- there appears to be no arguments array for methods/functions

- not sure if extendsClass(), would be implemented by Implements?, and 
theres no getExtendsArray(), to return the tree of extends

- constructors: -
$classdetails = new ClassType('myclass');
$classdetails = new ClassType($this);
rather than
$classdetails = ClassType::fromName('myclass')
$classdetails = ClassType::fromInstance('myclass')

- I still think it would be nice to implement some of them as variables 
so that
print_r($classdetails); would display some cute output...




btw - It would also be nice to have unloadclass - so
a) the codedoc generators - could load and free classes.
b) php-gtk could reload modules rather than having to restart each time 
to test code..

Regards
Alan


Andrei Zmievski wrote:

>I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it
>at:
>
>  http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt
>
>Comments and suggestions are appreciated.
>
>-Andrei                                       http://www.gravitonic.com/
>
>"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
> not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
>
>  
>