Re: Design by Contract

Just a thought: may be we can reuse part of PHP syntax and ask standard PHP parser to do the work and provide AST. <<requre(PHP_EXPRESSION)>> <<weight(PHP_NUMBER)>> I don't know if it's possible to implement... Thanks. Dmitry. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > This is just a brainstorming, and we are not going to provide a working > > solution tomorrow :) > > You have enough time :) > > > > I don't like phpdoc approach because we have to define, parse and compile > > new syntax for constraints. > > Would constraint be able to call other functions? include external php > > files? etc? > > For me it's an overhead. We may reuse PHP syntax. > > Last time we discussed annotation a syntax reusing PHP short syntax > for array came up. To keep it as simple as possible and let the > application deals with the contents. It sounds like a good compromise > and flexible enough. > > A possible key point is also the ability to use them while using the > same source for both 5.x and 7.x. Not sure it is technically possible > but this is something to keep in mind. >