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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:54:32 +0100
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To: Yahav Gindi Bar <g.b.yahav@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com>, PHP internals list <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reflection annotations reader
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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> So
> @var String
> @param2/param2("bar")
> Will be array('var' => 'String', 'param2/param2' => '("bar")' );
>
>
Let's make this clear immediately: an associative array as output is not
useful.
That would make it impossible to nest annotations. For example, something
like following wouldn't work if the output is just arrays:

@MyApp\Acl({
    "allow"=@MyApp\Acl\Allow({"john"="read", "joe"="write"}),
    "deny"=@OtherApp\Acl\Deny(default="*", log=true)
})

Maybe a silly example, but nested annotations are not that rare :)

Marco Pivetta

http://twitter.com/Ocramius

http://ocramius.github.com/

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