Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15994 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23772 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Apr 2005 14:08:04 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23755 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 14:08:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 14:08:04 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.80.117.3 longsword.omniti.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([66.80.117.3:46325] helo=mail.omniti.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2.12rc1 r(5476:5477)) with SMTP id 86/0D-18700-34FB3624 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:08:04 -0400 DomainKey-Status: good X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_sign implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=test; d=omniti.com; h=Received:In-Reply-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=MgwxJLq28QvTlKDtsgVrfSZ/PaGCQsVlp1vrlUfW/prS1/p5Uft9Ob1W3nkv5xlp bEaeXduXvZQC+WKQWTc0unnRv1GAL+PavFtNv6wW1Nb2Yuv/6GgzW9eXLLcZ57Z3 Received: from ([66.80.117.2:55428] helo=[10.80.116.150]) by mail.omniti.com (ecelerity HEAD r(4355M)) with SMTP id 42/FC-09291-83FB3624 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:07:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4e89b4260504180526455dabba@mail.gmail.com> References: <200504181319.56004.duncan@calligram.co.uk> <4e89b4260504180526455dabba@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-ID: <78525971b893d09a067d0484eaa8d3ac@omniti.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Duncan McIntyre , George Schlossnagle , internals@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:07:45 -0400 To: Wez Furlong X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Attributes support proposal From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle) On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Wez Furlong wrote: > > From a technical viewpoint, how do these attributes affect the class? > Are they simply no-ops that are tagged and made available via the > reflection API? How does this really help improve PHP? I know it > sounds cool, but so does recording phpdoc comments, and we decided to > not do that in the default case for performance reasons. How are > these attributes much different from that? A docblock parser would be nice though. :) George