Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:89409 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20152 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2015 15:48:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2015 15:48:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.204 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.204 mail4.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.204] ([217.147.176.204:37708] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 40/10-19088-E28D5565 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:47:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 17364 invoked by uid 89); 25 Nov 2015 15:47:55 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 17343, pid: 17360, t: 0.0765s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 25 Nov 2015 15:47:55 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <5654B516.4020700@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5655D82A.8020304@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:47:54 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Native Annotation Syntax From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 25/11/15 11:04, Pedro Cordeiro wrote: > I feel like this is a major feature that's missing, and people are using it > in a suboptimal way (docblocks), so I thought I'd reopen the discussion and > see if someone more familiar with the internals feels like implementing it In previous discussions it was pointed out that a substantial amount of legacy code already uses docblock style annotation, and that is well supported by IDE's and other tools, so there is no reason not it continue to support that substantial base. Any new system would require every third party tool to be adapted to use it was there any reason to load the code base with something which will only have a limited uptake. Adding an extension to provide an alternative would be the correct way forward, and then if that gains traction, look to it's status then. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk