Hi Dimitry, On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote: > I would like to present an RFC proposing support for native annotation. > > The naming, syntax and behavior are mostly influenced by HHVM Hack, but not > exactly the same. > > The most interesting difference is an ability to use arbitrary PHP > expressions as attribute values. > > These expressions are not evaluated, but stored as Abstract Syntax Trees, and > later may be accessed (node by node) in PHP extensions, preprocessors and PHP > scripts their selves. I think this ability may be useful for "Design By > Contract", other formal verification systems, Aspect Oriented Programming, etc > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attributes > > > Note that this approach is going to be native, in contrast to doc-comment > approach that uses not well defined syntax, and even not parsed by PHP itself. > > > Additional ideas, endorsement and criticism are welcome.
Nice RFC! Attributes are always evaluated, right? i.e. No INI switch nor declare to control behavior. Just making sure. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
