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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotations in PHP7
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Lisachenko <
lisachenko.it@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 2015-02-16 14:42 GMT+03:00 Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>:
>
>> the idea to not evaluate non-constant expressions at all, but just keep
>> AST and provide interface to read it.
>> PHP extensions should be able to use them as they like. (evaluate or
>> insert into AST of function(s), etc).
>>
>> Thanks. Dmitry.
>
>
>
> It's a good decision, userland frameworks, such as Doctrine/Go! AOP/etc
> will use this AST nodes and node visitors to provide an extension
> mechanism. Strong +1 here for AST nodes.
>

i think its a bit complicated for userland, although i clearly see the
benefit for things like DbC and AOP.

but what is the API of an AST node and how does the visitor look like?

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