On 09/06/2012 09:11 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
As for third-party tools, I do not see why third-party tools need PHP to change the parser. If PHP's parser is not good enough for those tools, they can have their own parser.
Nikita is doing an amazing job with PHP_Parser, which is such a third-party tool. However, it will always lag behind the canonical parser. And it will (probably) never match 100% the behavior of the canonical parser. This is why, from my perspective of someone who is interested in static analysis and quality assurance, I think that it would be a tremendous boost for the PHP platform if we had a state-of-the-art parser for the reference implementation of our programming language. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
