Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50066 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 52350 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2010 22:33:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2010 22:33:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:50578] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7A/BE-10621-F304FCC4 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:33:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CFA1FDE13D for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:33:31 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:33:31 -0700 (PDT) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.derickrethans.nl To: PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: PHP 5.4: Annotations From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) Hi! The RFC on annotations for PHP http://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations suggests to add new syntax to the language to provide meta data for use in reflection. This sort of meta data is usually provided in the form of docblocks, which this RFC does *not* state isn't good enough. The discussion on the mailinglist did not provide a clear consensus for either for or against. We could put this up for a vote, but I feel that that is not useful right now, because a few issues needs to be sorted out first. First, where we actually require annotations (over the current practise of using docblocks); and secondly whether we really want to introduce another syntax into the PHP scanners and parsers. For now I would suggest that this proposal needs to be sorted out before we can even suggest of putting it in PHP 5.4. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug