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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:12:16 +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 17:06:
> Too, it means that a given annotation directive may have spurious * 
> characters inside its string, if it's multi-line.  Sure, that can be 
> filtered out (Doctrine already does), but that's one more complication 
> to have to consider. 

I would expect that behaviour would be part of the standard definition, 
and the core implementation, so don't really see it as a big deal. The 
same thing happens with leading whitespace in many syntaxes anyway.