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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:56:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Simple Annotations
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 28/06/2016 17:31, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
> For another, eager construction means we can filter annotations with
> instanceof rather than by class-name, which is much powerful, enabling
> you to leverage inheritance - for example, you'd be able to ask
> directly for all instances of ValidationAnnotation and get those with
> a single call, which is incredibly useful.

Sorry for the extra mail with only one point, but I missed this before. 
This can be achieved using the fully-qualified class-name by using 
is_a() or is_subclass_of(). This obviously needs to trigger the 
autoloader anyway, but can still avoid actually instantiating the class. 
(And thus, per my other mail, evaluating the args.)

I think lazy construction (without magic stub classes) gives the best of 
both worlds here.