Re: Annotations in PHP7

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:12 AM, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> wrote: > If I understand Dmitry correctly, this would be stored as the compiler > internal representation of the 'new Entity("foo")' code, but this > wouldn't > be executed until an external mechanism decides to do so. So, this is PHP > code and it is compiled and stored in memory besides the function opcodes, > but not evaluated. > Right. It's even not compiled into bytecode, just parsed into AST and then associated with function/class/property like doc-comment. > You're right, it contains code. The key point is that this code will never > be executed nor used in any way until an external mechanism decides to > retrieve and evaluate it. That's metadata. > Right again. Thanks. Dmirty. > > Regards > > François > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Crypto Compress [mailto:cryptocompress@googlemail.com] > > Envoyé : mercredi 18 février 2015 23:11 > > À : PHP Developers Mailing List > > Objet : Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotations in PHP7 > > > > Hi List, > > > > > <orm(new Entity("foo"))> > > > > this may be off-topic. However i'm wondering how this could be an > > annotation? It looks like code. Why not include this into proper method? > > What am i missing? > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >