Re: Annotation RFC + Patch

Hi!

When you call getAnnotation('foo') it will just call Foo::__construct(array('value' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'hello world')); So there is no overhead on the execution time even if you have annotations in your code.

But there's a lot of overhead if you use them - as objects are created anew each time - and you can't actually do anything with them (like changing annotation's state) since you create them each time anew. The the question is why have object at all - if it can have no state? Why not just have an array? I see the use case you mention in RFC is ORM mapping - which I guess would do just fine with arrays. Any other use cases that you see that would require something more? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227