Re: Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process
| From: | Sebastian Bergmann | Date: | Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:47:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Moving to an AST-based parsing/compilation process | ||
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On 09/06/2012 06:37 AM, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
The only real advantage could be an ability to expose AST to PHP scripts, but only few people may need it.Everyone working on static analysis tools for PHP code needs access to the (canonical) AST. While the number of people behind this "everyone" will be small (hopefully it will grow) but the tools they create based based on the AST will be valuable for every PHP developer.