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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:02:37 +0400
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Annotations in PHP7
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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this will work, of course, and robust implementation wouldn't take more
than a day :)
but it'll require user-level parser again. no big advantage in comparison
to doc-block.

Thanks. Dmitry.




On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nikita Popov wrote on 16/02/2015 12:14:
>
>> I think this is a great idea, but we should postpone it to PHP 7.1.
>> Especially if you want to make this AST based (which would require both
>> stabilizing the AST we return for expressions and having APIs to do
>> codegen
>> based on the AST) it will require a lot of work both for design and
>> implementation. I don't think it's realistic to include a high-quality
>> implementation in PHP 7.
>>
>
> Is there any value in deciding the initial syntax for 7.0, and
> implementing only non-parameterised annotations, i.e. you can call
> hasAnnotation(string): bool but nothing else?
>
> This wouldn't be enough to migrate existing annotation frameworks or
> implement DbC and AOP, but it would mean we weren't adding a major syntax
> element in a .1 release, which just feels tidier to me somehow.
>
> It also commits us to a roadmap to implement it, rather than just putting
> off all the decisions for another year.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
>
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