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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 15:30:07 -0300
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Annotation PHP 7
From: marcio.web2@gmail.com (Marcio Almada)

> Reading it - http://doctrine-common.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/annotations.html -
> it looks pretty big - strictly typed values, named
> parameters, default constructors linked to properties, support for enum
> types, support for typed arrays, separate constant syntax within
> annotations. These are all features not supported in PHP, and it seems a
> bit weird to me to have mini-language inside PHP that would support
> these. And, of course, arbitrary depth recursive annotations, and for
> some reason separate array syntax using {} and not [].

From my point of view, most of this complexity is accidental.
This happened mostly because, of course, we couldn't have parser /
runtime errors
inside doc comments. Once we have core annotations, oustide of doc comments,
mostly of the DSL described in
http://doctrine-common.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/annotations.html
becomes unnecessary.

2014-11-04 15:17 GMT-03:00 Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
>> All projects mentioned in this thread use:
>> http://doctrine-common.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/annotations.html
>> That makes a pretty good base spec.
> Reading it, it looks pretty big - strictly typed values, named
> parameters, default constructors linked to properties, support for enum
> types, support for typed arrays, separate constant syntax within
> annotations. These are all features not supported in PHP, and it seems a
> bit weird to me to have mini-language inside PHP that would support
> these. And, of course, arbitrary depth recursive annotations, and for
> some reason separate array syntax using {} and not [].
> Moreover, there's extensive checking for annotations with exceptions
> thrown if any of the above doesn't typecheck - I'm not even sure where
> that would fit in PHP parser.
>
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