Dear Internals, I'm announcing a simplified RFC for annotations:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/simple-annotations It's an alternative to the proposed Attributes RFC and the (2010) Annotations RFC. I'm attempting with this to describe a feature that is closer to the language than what is proposed by the Attributes RFC, by permitting the use of any valid PHP expression as an annotation value. Where the Attributes RFC proposes new syntax for what is essentially arrays, this proposal instead permits you to use actual arrays, e.g. without inventing any new syntax. It also allows you to use values of any other type, including objects. This makes the proposed feature more immediately useful, with a minimal learning curve. Compared with the old Annotations RFC (and Doctrine Annotations, etc.) this proposal does not attempt to define or enforce any rules about what annotations are, permitted usage, inheritance rules, etc. - instead it adds a very simple language feature upon which the community may choose to build (and evolve) facilities that implement additional rules and logic. My hope is that, if we can agree on something very small and simple, we can defer the more opinionated discussions about rules and logic to the community. In my opinion, language features should be simple, and consistent with the language - I believe the way to do that, is to avoid discussions about how such as facility should be used, and instead focus on how it should work. There is a lot of opinion built into the old Annotations RFC, and into Doctrine - features that attempt to dictate how the feature should be used. I don't believe the language should dictate what is or isn't correct or appropriate use. Please review and comment. Thanks, Rasmus Schultz -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
