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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:21:48 -0700
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To: Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] - True Annotations
From: morrison.levi@gmail.com (Levi Morrison)

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Levi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:15 AM, 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.
>
>
> Think about a function declaration:
>
> @param("bar")
>  function foo($bar) {}
>
> What's the parser supposed to do there? Is it an annotation? Or an
> error-silenced function call?
>
> Granted, leaving off the `;` may make it possible to parse without ambiguity
> (since the @ - Const String - ( - ... - ) sequence, followed by a function
> declaration direclty may be possible)...
>
> But it's ambiguous at best (especially to read)...
>
> Anthony

Maybe I'm a complete fool, but since annotations aren't executed (they
are declarative only), this should cause no problems.