> > I think that the Hack name attributes is unintelligible and annotations >> would be much clearer to any audience. Simply because the name is very >> well known. >> > > Different languages names this differently. > I may add an additional voting question - "annotation vs attributes?".
The description on https://wiki.php.net/rfc even uses "annotation" to explain what "PHP Attributes" is, so I think "annotation"is the right naming choice. PHP Attributes > Native support for annotation (Discussion began 2016-04-22) Annotation is well known and unambiguous. Regards, Niklas.