On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:12 AM, François Laupretre <franc...@php.net>
wrote:
> If I understand Dmitry correctly, this would be stored as the compiler
> internal representation of the 'new Entity("foo")' code, but this wouldn't
> be executed until an external mechanism decides to do so. So, this is PHP
> code and it is compiled and stored in memory besides the function opcodes,
> but not evaluated.
>
Right. It's even not compiled into bytecode, just parsed into AST and then
associated with function/class/property like doc-comment.
> You're right, it contains code. The key point is that this code will never
> be executed nor used in any way until an external mechanism decides to
> retrieve and evaluate it. That's metadata.
>
Right again.
Thanks. Dmirty.
>
> Regards
>
> François
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Crypto Compress [mailto:cryptocompr...@googlemail.com]
> > Envoyé : mercredi 18 février 2015 23:11
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> > Objet : Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotations in PHP7
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > > <orm(new Entity("foo"))>
> >
> > this may be off-topic. However i'm wondering how this could be an
> > annotation? It looks like code. Why not include this into proper method?
> > What am i missing?
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