On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Hmm. I thought introspection is reflection. It seems I misunderstood.
I think that introspection is a superset of reflection. > Are you sure it's worth bloating the engine to hold this extra information? It is possible that an extension or a PEAR class could parse through the file and extract the doc comments, but since the engine is already doing the scanning/parsing, I thought it might be very convenient to use it. Yes, the structure will need to have extra fields, but how much bloat are we talking about? And if the reflection is to be good, it _will_ need additional information from the engine, such as the function parameter names, class type hints, etc - all this needs to be stored somewhere and it can't be an extension since it can't hook into the scanning/compilation process. If you don't like this approach, I am open to ideas. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "The time from now until the completion of the project tends to become constant." -- Douglas Hartree -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
