On 08/06/2020 16:30, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Lester Caine <les...@lsces.uk
<mailto:les...@lsces.uk>> wrote:
On 08/06/2020 09:44, Marco Pivetta wrote:
> I was mostly conflicted around the "allow grouped attributes"
bit, but
> James Titcumb (who currently cannot write to this list due to bounced
> emails) convinced me that it is a good replacement for `/**` and
`*/`:
If twenty years of documentation provided by docblocks is to be
replaced
there has to be a compelling reason to do so and while this latest
drive
for yet another documentation method seems to be now a fate acompli
there WAS no reason to replace that perfectly acceptable documentation!
Attributes are not documentation (they could theoretically be used for
it, but its not the intented use-case).
Attributes are supposed to be used with Runtime Reflection to have an
effect on the program.
Their existence does not supersede docblocks, only the use of docblocks
for meta-programming (essentially doing what Attributes allows with
docblocks).
So the statement that "it is a good replacement for `/**` and `*/`" is
not correct ... it may be that others do not understand the difference?
Personally none of this is addressing the fundamental problem of
providing a generic variable system that can manage range as well as
'type' ... something the docblock have been providing for a long time
and moving part of that to some new element is only making things worse :(
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