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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:33:56 +0100
To: Marcelo Gornstein <marcelog@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] native php annotations
From: colder@php.net (Etienne Kneuss)

On Mar 13 17:50:33, Marcelo Gornstein wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm new to this list, so please excuse me if this subject was already
> discussed, or proposed.

Hi,

it has already been discussed with length. Please take a look at:

http://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations

it would be more productive if you explain in what ways your proposal
differs from the one above, and why that should be so.

Best,

> 
> I've made an experimental patch to ZendEngine/PHP (5.3.5) to allow
> native annotations (without doc comments), using the token @@ (the @
> was already taken). It allows 0 or more annotations (with 0 or more
> arguments each one) for classes, properties, methods, and arguments
> for methods, like:
> 
> @@Annotation(key="value1")
> class A {
>     @@Annotation(key="value1")
>     private $property;
> 
>     @@Annotation(key="value1")
>     private function aMethod(@@Annotation(key="value1") @@Annotation2 $a, $b) {
>         ...
>     }
> }
> 
> The patch can be found at: https://github.com/marcelog/AnoForPHP.
> 
> The annotations and their optional arguments can be retrieved via the
> getAnnotations() method of ReflectionClass, ReflectionMethod,
> ReflectionParameter, and ReflectionProperty.
> 
> I plan to extend this patch with some extended functionality, like
> having PHP instantiate a given class for the given annotation. By
> using convention instead of configuration, the name of the annotation
> is the name of the class, which should also extend some PHP base
> class, like "Annotation".
> 
> I'm basically looking for comments on the patch and the functionality,
> since I'm new to the ZendEngine as well.
> 
> Again, I'm sorry if this post should not go here or there is not
> interest in such a feature in the language itself. Also, if I missed
> something in the code of the patch, because it's more like a
> proof-of-concept than a final formal proposal.
> 
> Regards!
> 
> 
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