Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:89416 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 35259 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2015 17:04:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2015 17:04:07 -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] ([217.147.176.204:47239] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B7/03-19088-10AE5565 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:04:07 -0500 Received: (qmail 29482 invoked by uid 89); 25 Nov 2015 17:03:30 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 29447, pid: 29474, t: 3.5821s 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 17:03:26 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <5654B516.4020700@gmail.com> <5655E790.9060408@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5655E9D5.5030201@lsces.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:03:17 +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: <5655E790.9060408@gmail.com> 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 16:53, Rowan Collins wrote: > Now, if annotations were being implemented as something brand new to > PHP, like say Traits were, I'd agree that we should look to languages > like Java and C# for syntax ideas. But since a lot of people have > already invented annotations using docblocks, and since docblocks are > already supported by the reflection classes, I'm not convinced of why we > shouldn't just carry on down that route. Thanks Rowan ... that just about sums it up better than I did ... -- 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