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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 18:20:16 +0700
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To: Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotation PHP 7
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Nov 4, 2014 8:54 PM, "Benjamin Eberlei" <kontakt@beberlei.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, that was what discussed last time too and makes perfectly sense.

I only not sure about the syntax. I do not like that one f.e. not really in
phase with what exists (doctrine or other languages).

Cheers,
Pierre

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