Hey,
I'm not sure what you're referring to as "generic variable system" but
given that you mentioned "type", I assume you mean typed variables? If so,
PHP is never going to have typed variables due to performance implications.
As for the `/**` and `*/`, I believe Marco was talking about Doctrine
Annotations. For example, instead of writing this:
```
/**
* @Route("/users", methods={"GET"})
* @OtherAnnotation
*/
```
...we would write:
```
<<
Route("/users", ["GET"]),
OtherAnnotation
>>
```
Best regards,
Benas
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, 7:47 PM Lester Caine <les...@lsces.uk> wrote:
> 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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