Re: Annotations in PHP7

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Alexander Lisachenko < lisachenko.it@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-02-16 14:42 GMT+03:00 Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>: > >> the idea to not evaluate non-constant expressions at all, but just keep >> AST and provide interface to read it. >> PHP extensions should be able to use them as they like. (evaluate or >> insert into AST of function(s), etc). >> >> Thanks. Dmitry. > > > > It's a good decision, userland frameworks, such as Doctrine/Go! AOP/etc > will use this AST nodes and node visitors to provide an extension > mechanism. Strong +1 here for AST nodes. > i think its a bit complicated for userland, although i clearly see the benefit for things like DbC and AOP. but what is the API of an AST node and how does the visitor look like?