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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:58:16 -0500
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reflection annotations reader
From: pierrick@webstart.fr (Pierrick Charron)

I do use PHP Unit and also Doctrine which uses annotations. And I know
that today because there is no native annotations, the implementation
use docblocks so I can not remove them :) But still if I did not know
anything about PHP and that someone was talking to me about comments,
I would expect my code to work even without them.

Pierrick

On 8 January 2013 13:28, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I agree, there is a need in this functionality, but all those userland
>> implementations were at the first place made because this
>> functionality was not part of the language. I think docblocks is not
>> the solution, doc blocks are just comments, and I would expect any
>> code to work the same way if I remove my comments.
>
> So you never used PHPUnit and never will in the future, right? Maybe so,
> but thousands of other people do, and have no problem with directives in
> the comments. I think it is time to lay this red herring to rest -
> nobody who had any encounter with any of the most popular PHP tools
> really expects it.
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
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