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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:14:25 +0400
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To: francois <francois@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotations in PHP7
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@php.net>
wrote:

> If I understand Dmitry correctly, this would be stored as the compiler
> internal representation of the 'new Entity("foo")' code, but this wouldn'=
t
> be executed until an external mechanism decides to do so. So, this is PHP
> code and it is compiled and stored in memory besides the function opcodes=
,
> but not evaluated.
>

Right. It's even not compiled into bytecode, just parsed into AST and then
associated with function/class/property like doc-comment.


> You're right, it contains code. The key point is that this code will neve=
r
> be executed nor used in any way until an external mechanism decides to
> retrieve and evaluate it. That's metadata.
>

Right again.

Thanks. Dmirty.


>
> Regards
>
> Fran=C3=A7ois
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Crypto Compress [mailto:cryptocompress@googlemail.com]
> > Envoy=C3=A9 : mercredi 18 f=C3=A9vrier 2015 23:11
> > =C3=80 : PHP Developers Mailing List
> > Objet : Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotations in PHP7
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > > <orm(new Entity("foo"))>
> >
> > this may be off-topic. However i'm wondering how this could be an
> > annotation? It looks like code. Why not include this into proper method=
?
> > What am i missing?
> >
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