On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>wrote:
> Hi! > > > Everyone I talked to who implemented annotations in docblocks did it > > as hack because there is no native support. This is not something that > > belongs to docblocks. It would be nice if you could take a look at the > > c# doc, there are really good concepts there. > > I know why they did it, and we already discussed that stuff in the last > annotation discussion. What I mean here is that presenting it as if the > notion of meaningful comments is completely unheard of in PHP and nobody > expects it is just wrong. Maybe it was so years ago, but it is > definitely not true now - de-facto meaningful comments *are* the > standard now, and have a lot of use, and nobody with any experience is > surprised by them. Regardless of *why* is it so, it is a fact. > > Stas, That still does not make it the right place. Annotations went into docblocks because it was the only place reflection could provide the needed information at runtime. Just because we now treat docblocks as 1st class citizens does not mean annotations should be there. Does that mean that annotations should be in docblocks and not in core for the reason of "we all know docblocks exist". I would seriously expect at the very least a stronger reason. These were some of the ones i heard before: 1. The syntax is crap: this is solvable, let's find the right syntax 2. PHP does not need it: i think we have proven the use already, every major FW has a implementation of this, there is clearly demand. So if we are going to get anywhere with this discussion I suggest getting back to the original RFC and working on solving the issues instead of discussing developer folklore. -- Rafael Dohms PHP Evangelist and Community Leader http://doh.ms http://wwwamsterdamphp.nl
