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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:57:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] - True Annotations
From: christian.kaps@mohiva.com (Christian Kaps)

Hi,

> I agree here, I think the above, if possible would be best.  In my
> mind annotations should proabably be limited in scope to class
> declarations and thus only before a class keyword, before a property
> or method declaration.
>
> In none of those scopes would [ ] be a parsing issue I believe...
>
> The one case would be at the beginning of a class, but if simply
> added something such as:
> [:SomeAttribute(xyz,abc),SomeAttribute2]
>
> It could never be confused with short array syntax and is still 
> brief.

I think when implementing real annotations, then it should be possible 
to declare arrays in it. So I think the square brackets don't work.
[Foo([1,2,3])]

Cheers,
Christian