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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:41:23 -0700
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To: Peter Nguyen <peter@likipe.se>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP
From: me@evancoury.com (Evan Coury)

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Peter Nguyen <peter@likipe.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> AOP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming) when used
> correctly, can make your application really modular. I've seen several
> implementations but they all require compiling of code beforehand. There
> is
> however a PECL extension now (https://github.com/AOP-PHP/AOP) that enable
> AOP in PHP directly. I was wondering if there are any
> interests/possibility
> to include AOP into the PHP core?

+1.

Recently there's been a trend towards modular design in the various
frameworks and PHP in general. I believe supporting AOP in some
capacity in core would help to foster this mentality and would
obviously improve the extensibility of existing
modules/bundles/libraries/etc. The result would be more opportunities
for code reuse and less inferior, duplicate implementations of the
same old wheel, as third party extensions for existing code could be
made much more powerful.

--
Evan Coury