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Re:PHP 8 to Add a JIT by WalterGR on Monday April 01, 2019 @01:51PM (#19546017)
Usually an AST is needed that is void of all syntactic sugar,

That’s how I’ve always see “AST” used, but not the following:

yet can express the required data flows and dependencies so the trivial substitutions/replacements/caching and refactorings can be done at this level.

Is what you describe some flavor of ‘augmented’ AST? Does that have a name other than AST?

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