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hazn on May 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go with PHP

They are not. Attributes are metadata that can reflected/accessed at runtime: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/attributes

zeroimpl on May 12, 2023 [–]

Comments can also be accessed at runtime :)

psychoslave on May 24, 2023 | [–]

And a program can generally read its source code and make fancy adhoc interpretation, sure. That’s nowhere close to specified facilities that you are guarantied to be able to use with a fair amount of trust in the resulting outcome with the regular toolbox.

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