endel/galapagos

Galapagos

Evolutionary language transformation. Fork of igorw's initial work., _(*1)

Read the related blog post., _(*2)

Backport existing PHP features to previous versions through AST compilation. Inspired by lisp macros. Using the incredible nikic/PHP-Parser., _(*3)

Missing features

5.4

• Binary number format
• Closure rebinding

Edge cases:, _(*4)

• Calling private methods from within closure
• Ensure $that gets passed to nested closures

State

There needs to be a strategy for managing state. A trait transformer needs to keep track of the traits it found. That is currently missing., _(*5)

Preservation

There should be a way to preserve existing code formatting, especially for code that wasn't actually modified. Instead of pretty-printing everything, only changed parts of the AST should be changed in source. Three-way-diff may help with this., _(*6)

Line numbers

Is there any way to do something like source maps to refer to the original line numbers, so that code remains at all debuggable?, _(*7)