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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Attribute Amendments
From: lester@lsces.uk (Lester Caine)

On 08/06/2020 16:30, Benjamin Eberlei wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk 
> <mailto:lester@lsces.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On 08/06/2020 09:44, Marco Pivetta wrote:
>      > I was mostly conflicted around the "allow grouped attributes"
>     bit, but
>      > James Titcumb (who currently cannot write to this list due to bounced
>      > emails) convinced me that it is a good replacement for `/**` and
>     `*/`:
> 
>     If twenty years of documentation provided by docblocks is to be
>     replaced
>     there has to be a compelling reason to do so and while this latest
>     drive
>     for yet another documentation method seems to be now a fate acompli
>     there WAS no reason to replace that perfectly acceptable documentation!
> 
> 
> Attributes are not documentation (they could theoretically be used for 
> it, but its not the intented use-case).
> 
> Attributes are supposed to be used with Runtime Reflection to have an 
> effect on the program.
> 
> Their existence does not supersede docblocks, only the use of docblocks 
> for meta-programming (essentially doing what Attributes allows with 
> docblocks).

So the statement that "it is a good replacement for `/**` and `*/`" is 
not correct ... it may be that others do not understand the difference? 
Personally none of this is addressing the fundamental problem of 
providing a generic variable system that can manage range as well as 
'type' ... something the docblock have been providing for a long time 
and moving part of that to some new element is only making things worse :(

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