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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 21:10:08 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reflection annotations reader
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Stas,

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:28 PM, 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.


Everyone I talked to who implemented annotations in docblocks did it
as hack because there is no native support. This is not something that
belongs to docblocks. It would be nice if you could take a look at the
c# doc, there are really good concepts there.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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