Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15996 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47040 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Apr 2005 14:25:59 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47025 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 14:25:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 14:25:59 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 unknown Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:44666] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2.12rc1 r(5476:5477)) with SMTP id 47/DE-18700-473C3624 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:25:57 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3IERs84012605 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:27:54 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3IERqor012584; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:27:52 +0200 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:25:53 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: George Schlossnagle cc: Wez Furlong , Duncan McIntyre , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <78525971b893d09a067d0484eaa8d3ac@omniti.com> Message-ID: References: <200504181319.56004.duncan@calligram.co.uk> <4e89b4260504180526455dabba@mail.gmail.com> <78525971b893d09a067d0484eaa8d3ac@omniti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jci-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Attributes support proposal From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, George Schlossnagle wrote: > > 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. :) And we have one as far as I know. Derick