Re: [RFC] PHP Attributes

Just because HHVM is closer to PHP than C#. ________________________________ From: Dominic Grostate <codekestrel@googlemail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 19:43 To: Dmitry Stogov Cc: rowan.collins@gmail.com; PHP internals; Stanislav Malyshev Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP Attributes Why not like C#? [Description("My Function")] function my_function() {} Without the semicolon, this wouldn't be valid in any other context. On 26 Apr 2016 8:41 a.m., "Dmitry Stogov" <dmitry@zend.com<mailto:dmitry@zend.com>> wrote: On 04/25/2016 11:20 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: Hi! No, but this is valid: @atrr(); function foo() { ... } That's perhaps a little too close for comfort...? That's different syntax. If you put ; in the middle of statement, it can change - "$c = $a + $b;" is not the same as "$c = $a; + $b;" - but nobody thinks + can not be used because of that. As I said, << and >> are existing operators too, so if you are creative enough, I'm sure you can find cases like that too. Hi Stas, You may try to replace attribute syntax with @attr(...) (without semicolon) into our PHP parser. Note that we have LALR grammar + restrictions caused by semantic actions. If you are able to do this, I'll add it into the RFC as an option. Thanks. Dmitry. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php