Re: [VOTE] Attribute Amendments
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk> wrote:
> On 08/06/2020 09:44, Marco Pivetta wrote:
> > I was mostly conflicted around the "allow grouped attributes" bit, but
> > James Titcumb (who currently cannot write to this list due to bounced
> > emails) convinced me that it is a good replacement for /** and
> > */:
>
> If twenty years of documentation provided by docblocks is to be replaced
> there has to be a compelling reason to do so and while this latest drive
> for yet another documentation method seems to be now a fate acompli
> there WAS no reason to replace that perfectly acceptable documentation!
>
Attributes are not documentation (they could theoretically be used for it,
but its not the intented use-case).
Attributes are supposed to be used with Runtime Reflection to have an
effect on the program.
Their existence does not supersede docblocks, only the use of docblocks for
meta-programming (essentially doing what Attributes allows with docblocks).
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