We cannot support both this syntax and property hooks. Drop
support for the alternative syntax in the PHP 8 parser. The
PHP 7 parser still supports it.
This fixes the long-standing issue where a comment would get assigned
to all nodes with the same starting position, instead of only the
outer-most one.
Fixes#253.
In most circumstances we are interested in the whole string, not
the parts split by namespace separator. As names are common, this
representation measurably improves memory usage and performance.
The parser will now always generate Identifier nodes (for
non-namespaced identifiers). This obsoletes the useIdentifierNodes
parser option.
Node constructors still accepts strings and will implicitly create
an Identifier wrapper. Identifier implement __toString(), so that
outside of strict-mode many things continue to work without changes.
A Nop statement will be inserted into statement lists if there are
any trailing comments in the list (which would otherwise not be
associated with any node).
The pretty printer output currently still contains a superfluous
newline.
Adding this as an option to avoid breaking people's tests.
Some of the test results show pretty clearly that we are incorrectly
assigning the same comment multiple times for nested nodes (mentioned
in #36).
