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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Attributes/Annotations Case Study: Drupal
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 30/04/2016 23:45, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Oh, of course you can have methods, but then it is strange conceptually
> - you have a normal class, which some other part of the language just
> uses for something else that classes are not routinely used for. I.e.,
> does it call a constructor? When? With which arguments? What if it
> fails? What if I just create an object of this class - would it be the
> same as annotation object?

Hm... I was going to say "well, PDO does this if you use 
PDOStatement::fetchObject"; but then I remembered that the integration 
with the object there IS a bit weird - it injects raw properties, and 
*then* calls the constructor.

So, I'm not sure there's a limitation in terms of the object being 
data-only per se, but there are certainly oddities to be dealt with in 
terms of construction. And as you mentioned, mutability leads to another 
set of oddities - are the mutations stored for next time you request 
that annotation, or is the object recreated on each access?

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
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