2015-02-05 16:07 GMT+03:00 Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com>: > In general it's should be possible to provide PHP API to manipulate with > AST and write compiler extensions in PHP. > Looks promising.. :) > Anyway, If you are interested - start working on it.
Actually, it's almost done by Nikita Popov: https://github.com/nikic/php-ast. Missing part is to put this extension into PHP core, create an interface for hooks and then give PHP hooks a control during parsing of source code. So maybe just make a vote to include this API into core? This will give a lot of food for thoughts and implementations of AOP, DbC, SQL-like native syntax and much more. From PHP Core developers it will be only the implementation, all other things can be easily extended by userland developers.
