Re: [RFC] PHP Attributes

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > I would like to present an RFC proposing support for native annotation. > I'm trying to imagine where the benefit of non-constant expressions comes in. <<foo($a < 1)>> Assuming we roll in php-ast at the same time (which is a big addition, IMO, and deserves its own separate RFC), what are users meant to do with this? Even if there's a use-case here, one could accomplish the same thing with: <<foo('$a < 1')>> And manually running that string into php-ast if that's what the caller wanted. Also, maybe I missed it, but I didn't see an answer to the question of ambiguity between parsing the above as a straight string, versus parsing it as a ZEND_AST_ZVAL. I'm sure the answer is "If the AST tree is just a ZVAL, then it's provided as the compile-time expression, but what about something else like this: <<foo(1+1)>> Logically, this is reducible to a single compile-time value, but it's a complex expression, so would it be the value int(2)? Or ZEND_AST_BINARY_OP(int(1), int(1))? I just think that over-engineers what should be a simple annotation feature. All that said, I love the proposal overall, and I can't wait to propose builtin annotations like <<__Memoize>>, <<__Mock>>, and similar. -Sara