Re: [RFC] JIT

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 3:17 PM Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > On 2/5/19 10:31 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > > Den tir. 5. feb. 2019 kl. 20.48 skrev Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com>: > >> Shouldn't we introduce annotations instead of relying on doc comments? > > > > Yeah I'm not too happy with that approach either. I would rather see > > another way to do this and like you said; annotations is probably the > > best way to go about it as introducing a new keyword is not very > > suitable imo. > > > > Attributes were proposed ~3 years ago. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attributes > > There were few other releted proposals. > But they didn't pass. Understanding and adoptions of annotations (Doctrine mainly afaics) have change. I think it is tricky to define it in a way that it can be useful and adopted as a core language feature, meaning being flexible enough to be extendable and usable as a base for userland extensions. That latter part is the biggest challenge. What do the actual users/authors of the current userland implementation think? (pls other thread? :) Best, -- Pierre @pierrejoye