Re: Reflection API : Feature request and question

----- Original Message ----- From: "Arjen Warendorff" <awarendorff@e-sites.nl> To: "'PHP Internals List'" <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:33 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Reflection API : Feature request and question > Hello, > > I have played around with the Reflection API, missed some features and have > some questions: > > At the moment there is no way of checking if a default parameter has a > value, and if so, to get it's value. Example: > function foo($bar = TRUE) {} > The default value for $bar would be TRUE in this example (maybe a > "hasDefaultValue()" and a "getDefaultValue()" method?). I reported this in my bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28241 It was suspended until PHP 5.1... but yes, I really think the Reflection API needs this! > The ReflectionFunction method "getStartLine()" would be, in my opinion) > become even more usefull if you had something like a "getLine()" method > which should return the source code on that line, but i might be out of my > league here. :) Couldn't you do this in userland? Which the PHP internals seem so obsessed about :D I don't know if this is truly useful - maybe if the PHP code is stored in memory anyway, and it doesn't introduce a performance penalty...? Jevon