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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:21:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ReflectionFile missing
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 09:33 -0500, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
> From my point of view, the concept of a "file" has become semantically more
> important, and increasingly relevant to Reflection, with the latest PHP
> features added in the past couple of years.
> 
> I can see what you mean though - it's probably not a small effort, and
> there are probably more important aspects of PHP that need attention...

When at runtime do you need this? - I can see the need for doing it
"statically" when building some form of autoloading map or such. 

For static analysis I (in my personal, probably narrow) opinion see
little benefit in doing it from within PHP (see other part of the
thread)

johannes