Thanks, Richard and Rowan - this gives me more to work with! I will work on a new proposal and ask for more input when I have a draft ready :-)
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/06/2016 17:31, Rasmus Schultz wrote: >> >> For another, eager construction means we can filter annotations with >> instanceof rather than by class-name, which is much powerful, enabling >> you to leverage inheritance - for example, you'd be able to ask >> directly for all instances of ValidationAnnotation and get those with >> a single call, which is incredibly useful. > > > Sorry for the extra mail with only one point, but I missed this before. This > can be achieved using the fully-qualified class-name by using is_a() or > is_subclass_of(). This obviously needs to trigger the autoloader anyway, but > can still avoid actually instantiating the class. (And thus, per my other > mail, evaluating the args.) > > I think lazy construction (without magic stub classes) gives the best of > both worlds here. > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
