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		carbonica on Aug 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Like PHP Considering Facebook uses Haskell to automate changes to their PHP codebase, I'd imagine PHP isn't doing them any favors.

__rkaup__ on Aug 10, 2011 [–]

I heard about that tool. Can you tell us more about what it does?

antoncohen on Aug 11, 2011 | [–]

It is called lex-pass [1], it does syntax aware transformations of PHP. Like sed, but specifically for PHP. There is a video that mentions it briefly at 2:00 min [2].

[1] https://github.com/facebook/lex-pass [2] http://www.vimeo.com/6699769

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