PHP 5.4: Annotations

Hi! The RFC on annotations for PHP http://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations suggests to add new syntax to the language to provide meta data for use in reflection. This sort of meta data is usually provided in the form of docblocks, which this RFC does *not* state isn't good enough. The discussion on the mailinglist did not provide a clear consensus for either for or against. We could put this up for a vote, but I feel that that is not useful right now, because a few issues needs to be sorted out first. First, where we actually require annotations (over the current practise of using docblocks); and secondly whether we really want to introduce another syntax into the PHP scanners and parsers. For now I would suggest that this proposal needs to be sorted out before we can even suggest of putting it in PHP 5.4. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug