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Subject: Debugging code ...
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

On the basis of 'If it's not broken', what is actually broken, and what
is just a matter of 'I don't like that way of working'?

I have a working Annotation system that has not changed since I started
working with PHP. PHPEclise simple displays the information from the
docblock comments and allows me to open the relevant file. I can then
review the other functions available. I can update the material and have
even resorted to porting files and adding extra notes when trying to
decipher other peoples work.

The problem these days is that projects are stripping the docblock data
as 'not the modern way of doing things' and we end up with code that
does not work with the IDE. Fortunately DVCS systems have some other
advantages and one can cherry pick code changes while maintaining a
different style of working.

In addition to 'Annotation', there is a lot of discussion about adding
types into the code. Having moved to using arrays to pass data to
functions, the docblock material includes details on what is required in
the hash, something that you will never get from any of the current
discussions?

Just to add to the fun, PHPEclipse seems to have lost support and while
I have learnt enough Java in the past to fix a few little niggles,
currently it is unable to cope with a number of new developments in PHP
so I'm stuck on just what IS the next move ... While it would be nice to
get on with some new code, nothing is stable enough these days to allow
that :(

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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