Changes Being Worked On For PHP 7.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Changes Being Worked On For PHP 7.1

PHP 7.1 is coming later this year as the first significant update to last year's PHP 7 release that delivered huge speed improvements...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PHP-7.1-Changes-Coming

[uid313]

I would like to see method & class decorators.

[Authorize]
public function Foo() {
    return "Foo";
}

See the [Authorize] attribute for example.

[cj.wijtmans]

I would like to see method & class decorators.

[Authorize]
public function Foo() {
return "Foo";
}

See the [Authorize] attribute for example.

what does it do?

[boxie]

oh nice - typed properties has a really good chance in shortening the top of most of my classes...

this...

class Example
{
  /**
   * @var SomeThing
  */
  protected $someThing
}

  public function(SomeThing $someThing)
  {
    $this->someThing = $someThing;
  } 

becomes...

class Example
{
  protected SomeThing $something

  public function(SomeThing $someThing) 
  {
    $this->someThing = $someThing;
  }
} 

[boxie]

I would like to see method & class decorators.

[Authorize]
public function Foo() {
return "Foo";
}

See the [Authorize] attribute for example.

It does not look like the PHP Attributes RFC is going to get up (this time). Having a formalised syntax instead of relying on DocBlocks would be really cool, but I guess they need to get it right before accepting any implementation

[uid313]

what does it do?

[Authorize] is just an example of a hypothetical attribute, but it can really be anything.
It allows you to decorate a method with an attribute or decorator and then when you call that method the attribute gets called before.

It exist in C# as [Attribute], and in Python and Java as @attribute.