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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 16:47:26 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Native Annotation Syntax
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Larry Garfield wrote on 25/11/2015 16:42:
> However, doing so would make static checking more difficult; If 
> annotations become a language-native feature, they should be a 
> first-class citizen to make it easier for IDEs to handle. 

Could you explain why docblocks are harder to parse than text outside 
docblocks? As far as I know, IDEs *already* parse docblocks, e.g. using 
@param and @return for type analysis, so I don't really see why 
generalising that would be a big problem.