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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:48:33 +0200
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To: Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbondc@openmv.com>
Cc: Nate Abele <nate.abele@gmail.com>, PHP Development <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Re: PHP Annotations RFC + Patch
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbondc@openmv.com> wrote:
> On Tue Sep 14 01:25 PM, Nate Abele wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't see how this is even remotely close to being
>> appropriate for PHP. Maybe I'm missing something. :-)
>>
>
> I agree, the use cases are just not there

There are plenty of use cases for that. The main problem I see is that
nobody seems to have actually used them in other languages, and then
totally miss why it is a good thing (while not being deadly critical).
Only the syntax is discussed is somehow disturbing too.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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