Nothing magical in the annotations no, they very obvious. It gives you the to declare logic and meta data. I do not like annotated in comments, I like the implementation of annotation in C#
2014-11-04 0:49 GMT+02:00 Levi Morrison <le...@php.net>: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> > wrote: > > On 11/3/14, 10:37 AM, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > >> > >> On 11/03/2014 05:26 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > >>> > >>> On Nov 4, 2014 1:24 AM, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.har...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Chris Wright <c...@daverandom.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> There are no current concrete plans and currently nothing being > >>> > >>> seriously > >>>>> > >>>>> discussed (at least, not publicly; I don't know if anyone has > anything > >>> > >>> in > >>>>> > >>>>> pipeline that they haven't announced yet). The three RFCs you linked > >>> > >>> above > >>>>> > >>>>> are all basically dead. > >>>>> > >>>>> You are of course welcome to put together a proposal and/or start up > a > >>>>> discussion on the subject if it is something you would be prepared to > >>> > >>> put > >>>>> > >>>>> work into. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> I, for one, severely dislike annotations. But, that's why there's an > RFC > >>>> process :) > >>> > >>> > >>> I tend to think it is not a taste matter anymore. Symfony ecosystem > >>> (components, doctrine and co), Zend framework, etc use them. We see > >>> requests to work around user land implementation but we keep us away to > >>> get > >>> native support. Maybe it is time to the jump and get rid of our tastes, > >>> like years ago when we discussed which kind of OO we wanted in php. At > >>> the > >>> end of the day we do what we did not want back then. > >> > >> > >> The TYPO3-family (TYPO3 CMS, Flow, Neos) also use annotations. > >> So, yes it is used "in the wild" already and is there to stay. We can > >> imho just make it a bit easier to work with (maybe also performance-wise > >> in some cases) etc. > >> > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Stefan > > > > > > > > Drupal is now using annotations as well; not for the Symfony code we've > > inherited, actually, but for some home-grown systems for which we're > using > > Doctrine's annotation library. > > > > Having first-class language support for metadata on definitions would be > > quite helpful, if for no other reason than native syntax checking and > code > > assistance. (And to help people get over the "it's code in comments!!!" > > problem, which is entirely because we have to put annotations in comments > > now as a hack due to the lack of native support.) > > Whether the annotation is in a comment or not, the idea of changing > behavior at runtime based on the annotation is pretty magical. I > highly discourage using this type of feature whether it's in a comment > or not. > > I will certainly vote no on any RFC on this subject, as I see it as > being significantly more harmful than helpful. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
