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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:54:56 +0100
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
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	PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotation PHP 7
From: kontakt@beberlei.de (Benjamin Eberlei)

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> As I do consider personal tastes important, there are times where we
> should
> >> listen to our users.
> >
> > It would be nice to take "paving the walkways" approach, but last time
> > we tried, IIRC we've got into something very over-engineered. Maybe if
> > we try again with more restricted scope (i.e. not trying to put a DSL
> > for describing arbitrarily complex data structures into it :) it would
> > be more successful this time.
>
> All projects mentioned in this thread use:
>
> http://doctrine-common.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/annotations.html
>
> That makes a pretty good base spec.
>

Being the author I can say, the doctrine annotations project is way too
over-engineered/special-purpose to land in core.

I agree with Stas that a much simpler approach is probably realistic.

beginning pure speculation here, i see a short array like syntax like:

[foo="bar", bar="baz", baz=["key": "value"]]
function annotated_fn() {}

Maybe even exactly short array syntax:

["foo"="bar", "bar"="baz", "baz"=["key": "value"]]
function annotated_fn() {}

Then $reflectionFunction->getAnnotations() returns an array. Various
PHP/Userland libraries and frameworks can then stick whatever symantic on
top that they want.

greetings
Benjamin

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