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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 'Documentation'
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Reflection/Annotations are just another way of 'documenting' classes -
> aren't they?

No.

Annotations are used to affect behaviors, define services, etc. Check
out the c# implementation for example.

--
Pierre

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