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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Please let's not bitch about lazy users not learning
 C to implement THEIR missing feature. (Was Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again)
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 05/09/2011 10:48 AM, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote:
> Rasmus,
>
> I already wrote an RFC, I already wrote a patch and none from php-src
> gave me some valuable feedback.
> During private conversations while flaming messages were popping on ML
> thread, I updated the code to be more PHP compatible and when I went
> to update the RFC on wiki, it became offline.
>
> BTW, if you think Annotations wouldn't be so popular, please tell the
> Symfony users (Routing, Validation), Doctrine users (Entire Mapping),
> Typo3 users, Zend Framework (XML-RPC), PHPUnit users that this feature
> is useless. If this doesn't count 2000 users using the feature, I
> think only wordpress users may count this.

Nobody has argued that there isn't a use for annotations. There 
obviously is. The argument is whether it needs to be in the core of the 
language when it isn't inherently a runtime thing. A single standard for 
annotations and non-runtime tools for manipulating that standard is a 
viable approach as well. That is what people are doing now, except they 
all picked different ways of doing it. By putting it into the core you 
are solving that problem since everyone will likely switch to it, but 
the argument is that that is not a good enough justification for putting 
it into the core of the language.

-Rasmus