Re: PHP 5.4 - Meta attribute (aka. Annotations) support discussion

I have certainly wanted them many times - especially when using SOAP. Having WSDL auto-generation without compromising developer documentation and attempting to have user-land code parse phpdoc for this purpose seem{ed,s} counterintuitive. That said, introducing annotations is a HUGE undertaking and would require a ton of work with potentially little return. I do think it would be worth looking into in a future major release, but there are quite a few other things that would be more beneficial to the community for immediate discussions. Did anyone write and RFC on this? guilhermeblanco has a good start. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > > Suggesting phpdoc is used for the purposes mentioned does not mean we > don't understand what we're talking about. > > I feel like you never used annotations in other languages, did you? > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Thanks, Will Fitch Director of Operations | Quepasa.com 931.205.8242 | will.fitch@quepasacorp.com Twitter: twitter.com/willfitch