On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Dmitry Stogov wrote:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > During discussion of different ways of implementing "Design by Contract"
> > we
> > > got an idea of using annotations.
> > >
> > > BTW: annotations are useful by their own and may be used for different
> > > purposes. Support for annotations was proposed long time ago:
> > >
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations-in-docblock
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflection_doccomment_annotations
> > >
> > > HHVM already implemented similar concept
> > >
> > > http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.attributes.php
> > >
> > > I made a quick and dirty PoC that shows how we may implement annotations
> > in
> > > PHP7 and how powerful they may be :
> > > https://gist.github.com/dstogov/dbf2a8f46e43719bd2c2
> >
> > Why didn't you pick the same syntax as hack?
> 
> It's not smart enough to be used for DbC, AOT and many other features (we
> are going to capture AST).

I realize that, but:

<optimization_level(2)>

could easily look like:

<<optimization_level(2)>>

The latter syntax <<…>> is what Hack does, but you picked <…> - which 
makes it both the same as HTML/XML tags *and* different from Hack. The 
<…> syntax also gets in the way of XHP 
(https://github.com/facebookarchive/xhp-php5-extension)

cheers,
Derick
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