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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP Annotations RFC + Patch
From: jbondc@openmv.com ("Jonathan Bond-Caron")

On Thu Sep 16 02:44 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>=20
> WTF is "Annotations"? We didn't define it yet. Should PHP support=20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_metadata
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/efdesign/archive/2010/03/30/data-annotations-in-t=
he-entity-framework-and-code-first.aspx

.NET calls this attributes but Sun invented the annotations concept in =
2002:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=3DTXZ4AAAAEBAJ