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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:39:35 +0200
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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Annotations RFC + Patch
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure we've seen a good reason to add annotations instead of using
> PHPDoc. =A0Sure, PHPDoc isn't a perfect fit for certain purposes, but I t=
hink
> it certainly falls in the good-enough fit for most purposes. =A0It's also=
 both
> machine and human readable, and best of all - it's already there.
> There should be overwhelmingly strong reasons to add a whole new branch o=
f
> syntax to PHP, I for one don't see the huge gain annotations bring on top=
 of
> PHPDoc.

You are not serioulsy suggesting to use phpdoc for runtime annotation
support? Are you?

Besides that, did you look at the other languages annotation support
and how and why they are used?

--
Pierre

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