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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:29:22 +0200
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Reflection annotations reader
From: v.veselinov@gmail.com (Vladislav Veselinov)

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Exactly. Annotations just don't belong there. Short syntax for arrays got
shut a few times but it finally made it to core. I hope native support will
be revisited at some point.

On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Pierre Joye wrote:

> hi Stas,
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com<javascript:;>>
> 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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