Re: Re: PHP Annotations RFC + Patch

Hey everyone, I want to re-drop my proposal onto the table that is just a shortcut notation for php class instantiation inside that brackets (omiting the new keyword): annotation := [className(classArgs*)] classArgs := array | string | int | float | ... Re-pasting my examples (this time from simple to complex): [ExpectedException("InvalidArgumentException")] [ExpectedException("InvalidArgumentException", "Expected message", 40")] [Validation(array("type" => "EMail", "options" => array("checkMX" => true))] [JoinTable(array( "name" => "users_phonenumbers", "joinColumns" => array( array("name" => "user_id", "referendedColumnName" => "id"), ), "inverseJoinColumns" => array( array("name => "phonenumber_id", "referendColumnName" => "id", "unique" => true), ), )] The only thing new here would be the brackets [] and the implicit class instantiation through omitting the new keyword. i.e. [Foo("bar")] would essentially mean new Foo("bar") when $refl->getAnnotation() is called. greetings, Benjamin On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 20:24 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> The separator never was a problem... but I definately don't want to > >> see another 6 months just to define what would the separator be. > >> If we need to drop [] in favor of array support, I vote for ! as > >> separator. > > > > The separator is not a problem (even though 1-char one produces much less > > clutter). The cryptic syntax is. > > It seems that there is a misunderstanding about the goals of the > annotations. They are not meant to be read by human being > (javadoc/phpdoc/etc. are) but to be parsed automatically to be used > for services. > > In that sense, to have a syntax closed to one of the best (or less > worst, if you are on the opposed side ;-) syntax out there (c#/.net) > may be a good thing to do, instead of re einventing the php wheel. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org >