Re: [VOTE] Attribute Amendments

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 6:48 PM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk> wrote: > On 08/06/2020 16:30, Benjamin Eberlei wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk > > <mailto: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). > > So the statement that "it is a good replacement for /** > and */" is > not correct ... it may be that others do not understand the difference? > Personally none of this is addressing the fundamental problem of > providing a generic variable system that can manage range as well as > 'type' ... something the docblock have been providing for a long time > and moving part of that to some new element is only making things worse :( > Ah I think i understand where you come from, the original wording from Marco was I believe meant to explain only an analogy that <<>> can be seen as enclosement similar to /** */ in docblocks. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >