RE: [PHP-DEV] One API to rule them all? (Was: Extension Prepend Files)

De : Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com] Also I am really not a fan of yaml&co to generate C code but having critical parts in C and everything else in straight php :) I don't use yaml to generate C, just to define metadata, like extension name, arguments/return value characteristics, etc. The glue C code is then generated from this metadata. A constant definition, for instance, defines a name, a type, and a value. This definition will be given in yaml or json. That's all it is used for. The user writes the function body (between arg parsing and return value) in C. PHP is fine but defining a tree of metadata in json or yaml is really easier than writing nested array statements. Regards François