While I have your attention, I've long wondered if it's possible to do for PHP what CoffeeScript did for JS. A more aesthetically concise and pleasing syntax that compiles directly to PHP. There's a few projects (PHP-Snow, CoffeeScript for PHP, etc), but they all seemed to have been abandoned.
IMO CoffeeScript exists because we can't really avoid JS for web apps. But avoiding PHP is pretty straightforward - you just use python, ruby, or whatever.
In theory, yes. In practice, it's not so simple. Most developers using php do so not by choice, whether due to legacy code, or requiring php's ubiquity, or what have you.
You can't use ruby or python to build wordpress plugins, for instance.
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While I have your attention, I've long wondered if it's possible to do for PHP what CoffeeScript did for JS. A more aesthetically concise and pleasing syntax that compiles directly to PHP. There's a few projects (PHP-Snow, CoffeeScript for PHP, etc), but they all seemed to have been abandoned.
IMO CoffeeScript exists because we can't really avoid JS for web apps. But avoiding PHP is pretty straightforward - you just use python, ruby, or whatever.
In theory, yes. In practice, it's not so simple. Most developers using php do so not by choice, whether due to legacy code, or requiring php's ubiquity, or what have you.
You can't use ruby or python to build wordpress plugins, for instance.
Good point. I can see where something like CoffeeScript for PHP would be useful.
It doesn't use CoffeeScript's syntax, but I work on Pharen, which takes a Lisp dialect and compiles it to PHP: http://scriptor.github.com/pharen/
In the past I've had a rough time parsing PHP (for an rdoc-style project), despite PHP having some built in support for parsing itself: http://php.net/manual/en/function.token-get-all.php
Perhaps if one attempted to pull the parser out of Facebook's Hiphop and use that..
There is many PHP parsers in a few languages:
Some standalone:
https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Parser
Some part of other projects:
https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php https://github.com/facebook/pfff/tree/master/lang_php/parsin... https://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsecaudit/ http://lwn.net/Articles/239941/ http://www.score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~minamide/phpsa/ http://www.program-transformation.org/PHP/PhpSat https://www.fortify.com/ssa-elements/threat-intelligence/rat... http://lara.epfl.ch/web2010/phantm http://www.phpcompiler.org/ http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php?pageID=compiler
And probably many others.
How do I force a line break ? Where is the syntax doc ?
https://code.google.com/p/pihipi/