My first thought was to write a PHP-to-PHP compiler as well, but then
I guess this isn't done so easily.

I don't know any libraries that build an AST, not even PHP internally
builds an AST; and without an AST I don't see how you could reliably
do any optimizations on on the PHP code.

regards,
Johannes


On Nov 19, 12:46 am, Jordi Boggiano <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fabien Potencier
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think that makes sense because we have decided to use Twig as the default
> > templating system (and Twig supports a much more robust implementation of
> > automatic output escaping -- still not finished yet though.)
>
> This might sound stupid but have you ever considered just implementing a lie? 
> :)
>
> I mean, you could use the PHP tokenizer to pre-compile to php the php
> templates. It sounds a bit wrong, but it actually makes sense in this
> case I'd say. You could even have a raw() function that, if applies to
> some expression, would be removed during compilation but would turn
> off automatic escaping for that expression.
>
> It solves the performance issue, it solves the crazy vars sent to
> another function sent to another template etc that are unable to be
> resolved properly by the decorators.
>
> The question remains though, is it worth the trouble?
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Jordi Boggiano
> @seldaek ::http://seld.be/

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