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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:43:46 +0400
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Subject: Re: Annotations in PHP7
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > The test there is self explainable. Of course, annotations just provide
> > a way to add metadata, but doesn't define attribute names or the ways
> > they are going to be used. Only Reflection API to read.
>
> Looks fine, but I'm not sure how one can use the AST that the reflection
> returns. Is it for extensions only?
>

I don't know the best way yet.
Nikita worked in extension for AST traversing in PHP.


>
> Also, for some annotations you want values - i.e. optimization_level,
> and for some - expressions. So there should be an easy way to convert
> the AST to the actual value for whoever implements the annotation.
>

agree.

Thanks. Dmitry.


> > There are still a lot of technical problems that have to be solved.
> > Right now, we just need to answer a question - if we like this in PHP7?
>
> I'd like to have some annotations in PHP 7, definitely.
>
> --
> Stas Malyshev
> smalyshev@gmail.com
>

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