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

> De : php@golemon.com [mailto:php@golemon.com] De la part de Sara > Golemon > Why so limited? Like, why disallow objects completely? That feels > like a big step backward for PHP. Any why not computed constants? > (Assuming they stay constant throughout the process lifetime) This is not what we will release, if we decide to do it one day. This scope only applies to a first prototype: just enough to evaluate the concept, but not too much to avoid spending too much time before having a working prototype. The same for you when you add the code to generate for HHVM. I think it's enough to agree on a concept. > I'll be honest, I'm not a big fan of code-generation. I find it > introduces complexity and it's not needed here. Lots of languages > manage to put together a stable API without resorting to code > generators. I am not crazy about it either, I just want to generate code for argument parsing (removing every access to zval, dealing with 'mixed' type, checks...), return value (convert to zval, maybe a pair of checks), and the global 'glue' code (global header file, function/constant declare/undeclare, all the boring stuff). Some of this is too complex for C macros. The rest is provided by the user in C and stays in C. This code will use C macros to access what we want to abstract. Regards François