PHP-Parser limitation

[villfa]

Hi,

I was trying to write a new rule for people migrating to PHP 8 to cover this RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespaced_names_as_token
(see also https://3v4l.org/Yonll)

The goal was to transform the code this way:

- namespace Foo \ Bar;
+ namespace Foo\Bar;

- new \ stdClass();
+ new \stdClass();

Unfortunately PHP-Parser doesn't support this syntax anymore: nikic/PHP-Parser#700 (comment)

Since I don't know what to do with it, I wanted to keep a trace about that at least.

[TomasVotruba]

Hi, this is job for a coding standard tool.

You can see the difference between tokens and AST in examples here:

• https://tomasvotruba.com/blog/2018/10/25/why-ast-fixes-your-coding-standard-better-than-tokens/
• https://tomasvotruba.com/blog/2018/10/22/brief-history-of-tools-watching-and-changing-your-php-code/