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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 20:08:47 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reflection annotations reader
From: rasmus@mindplay.dk (Rasmus Schultz)

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I've started working on a new proposal, but I'm getting hung up on the
syntax - if we can't use angle brackets anymore, what can we use? Virtually
every symbol on a standard US keyword is an operator of some sort, does
that mean those are all out of the question?

e.g. thinking of concrete possible basic syntax, neither of the following
delimiters would work:

[Foo('bar')]

<Foo('bar')>

{Foo('bar')}

And presumably none of the following would work either:

~Foo('bar')
@Foo('bar')
^Foo('bar')
*Foo('bar')
&Foo('bar')
:Foo('bar')

Can you think of anything that would work?


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Vladislav Veselinov
<v.veselinov@gmail.com>wrote:

> Assume that you have this class with your proposed syntax:
>
> [SomeAnnotation('somevalue')]
> class Test {
>
> }
>
> This conflicts with the short array syntax. It looks like an array
> containing the result of the function 'SomeAnnotation' invoked with
> the parameter 'somevalue'.
> The only difference is the missing ";" but relying on this to
> determine whether this is an annotation or not would be insane.
> I'd support such a decision but with other syntax.
>
> I like Guilherme's RFC. I just don't think that the syntax is very PHPish.
>
>

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