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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:18:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] - True Annotations
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

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Every other language used :: or . for namespaces. The problem with @ is its
definition as error suppression operator, and Guilherme and Pierrick didn't
come up with a solution to stay BC using the @. Additionally some other
languages use [] (which also doesnt work in PHP).


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>wrote:

> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations
>
> Perhaps I am blind, but I do not see where in the RFC is defends its
> choice to use `<>`. Every other language I know of uses `@`, and I do
> not know of technical reasons why we couldn't use the same symbol.
> Annotations wouldn't be able to contain expressions so there wouldn't
> be anything that could generate a suppressible error.
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