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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP Attributes
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)



On 04/25/2016 12:44 PM, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi Dmitry,
>
> Awesome work! Thanks.
>
> I do like you keep what was discussed last time. Make the basics
> available and leave the rest to the applications (doctrine or other).
>
> I feel too that how the apps will interact with may need some more
> discussions but other commented on it so I won't interfer here :).
I've collected the most interesting feedback at 
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attributes#open_issues
And I'm going to correct RFC and implementation rethinking these questions.

Thanks. Dmitry.

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
>> The proposed by you "@..." syntax just won't fit into PHP grammar, because @
>> used as silence operator.
>>
>> Attribute, syntax is taken from HHVM. I don't see a big reason to introduce
>> more fragmentation into PHP world.
> Also see https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/attributes/syntax and I fully
> agree with Dmitry here. It makes no sense now to go with our own
> syntax.
>
> If any of the hhvm developers are around, we may get some feedbacks
> about their current APIs (using getAttributes) and if they would like
> to change one thing or another. That could (or must) part of the PHP
> specifications.
>
> Cheers,