RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Re: PHP Annotations RFC + Patch

On Tue Sep 14 01:25 PM, Nate Abele wrote: > > Sorry, but I don't see how this is even remotely close to being > appropriate for PHP. Maybe I'm missing something. :-) > I agree, the use cases are just not there Though maybe some form of "annotations" could be useful in php as a "pluggable type": http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/java-pluggable-types/ But this isn't an annotation as just plain metadata, the parser could do something with the annotation. i.e. class Phone { @ReadOnly public $id; @PhoneNumber public $number; } class PhoneNumber implements TypeAnnotation { static function getTypeValue($val) { return preg_replace('~[^0-9]~', '', $val); } } Instead of ~ class Phone { protected $_number; function __get($prop) { if($prop === 'number') return $this->_number; } function __set($prop, $val) { if($prop === 'number') $this->_number = preg_replace('~[^0-9]~', '', $val); } }