On Thu, May 5, 2022, at 12:04 PM, Ollie Read wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been spending a lot of time in the world of PHP reflection lately, > which has led me to create PRs for the documentation, a bug for closure > attributes, and even a new method on ReflectionMethod. I've also > compiled a list of suggestions for various additions and improvements > to some parts of reflection. > > You can find it here: > https://gist.github.com/ollieread/34c878bf120ee70f9d2a869cb7a242d1 > > I'm looking for some feedback on the various elements and some > guidance, if any have merit, as to whether they're going to require any > sort of RFC. I'm also happy to create PRs for some of the features, if > not all, though I think there are definitely some beyond my current > knowledge. I would also be interested in hearing from anyone who also > has other suggestions that could be added to this. > > Apologies if I'm missing something, or I could have done something > better, this is my first interaction with this mailing list, so I am > also happy to receive any feedback about the best approaches and ways > to handle things, if necessary.
Greetings. I've also been doing a lot of work with Reflection lately as part of https://github.com/Crell/AttributeUtils . I agree with and support almost all of these additions. (I'm no entirely convinced by getNumberOfAttributes(), but I don't really see a harm in it.) There was another short thread on the list back in February?, I think, about some improvements to reflection. We desperately need a few more well-placed interfaces and stubs for things like attributes, and even getName(). My C-fu is paltry if I'm being polite, but I'm happy to help with process and RFC writing/documentation. The Reflection API is badly in need of some love. In practice, I think most of these would require RFCs. The question is whether they're better as a bunch of stand-alone RFCs or one big "clean up Reflection" RFC or a series of "clustered" RFCs. I'm not sure what's most palatable to folks these days. --Larry Garfield -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
