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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:10:00 +0200
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Simple Annotations
From: rasmus@mindplay.dk (Rasmus Schultz)

Thanks, Richard and Rowan - this gives me more to work with!

I will work on a new proposal and ask for more input when I have a
draft ready :-)


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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