On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:29 PM Robert Hickman <robehick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The RFC is at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attributes_v2 > > > > > > A working patch is at https://github.com/beberlei/php-src/pull/2 > though > > > work around the details is still necessary. > > > > > > The RFC contains a section with common criticism and objections to > > > attributes, and I hope to have collected and responded to a good amount > > > already from previous discussions. > > > > > Why do decorator names refer to classes, rather than any callable as in > python? > Decorators in Python work differently (to my understanding) that the following function declartion @foo def bar(): At runtime becomes foo(bar()); PHPs Attributes do not become runtime behavior, instead they allow the Reflection API to access the attributes as metadata. As such declaring a callable doesn't make sense, because an attribute is not a callable, it is (meta-)data.
