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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:04:35 +0100
To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reflection annotations reader
From: mike.vanriel@naenius.com (Mike van Riel)

On 08.01.2013 09:55, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>> First of all, there are already plenty of established userland
>> implementations - so there is really no need for this.
>
> On the contrary, plenty of implementations means there's a need in 
> this
> functionality, and it might be a good idea to have one standard
> implementation if it can cover like 80% of use cases.

I agree with Stas on this one; I have noticed that there is a real need 
to
parse the meta-data from a DocBlock (not just tags, descriptions as 
well).
phpDocumentor is an example but other projects benefit from this as 
well.