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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 06:01:43 +0000
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To: Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] generating code from AST
From: dave+php@mudsite.com (David Walker)

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On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 22:55 Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote:

> Am 06.03.2017 um 22:40 schrieb Sara Golemon:
> > https://github.com/sgolemon/astkit
>
> There's also https://github.com/nikic/php-ast.
>
> But wouldn't it be great if PHP 7.2 shipped with a built-in,
> enabled-by-default extension for AST operations?


I'd be happy if this were to go forward. When/if there are changes to AST,
having a tool like these in core would require them to be updated at the
same time.

Would this concept also want to extend to a VLD-esque extension as well for
the same reasons?  I'd be receptive for abilities to expose the core
internal ast/ops to userland more easily as a core extension

However I'm sure there are valid reasons why VLD (or similar) have not been
included; and would wonder if those would also end up applying to the AST

--
Dave

>

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