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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:
> For me, the "sometimes it's code and sometimes it's not, even though 
> it looks the same" argument is sufficient to reject docblocks as a 
> location for annotations. 

Annotations aren't code, they're metadata, and docblocks already contain 
metadata; it's just that originally, that metadata was targeted at 
generating documentation, rather than generating code, or affecting 
run-time behaviour.