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

I think my reply ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/63203 ) addresses this. It doesn't introduce any new language constructs per se. You could make it even more standard and clear by adding "new" after "annotation". Just as a thought: instead of annotation, metadata could also be used as the keyword. I am interested to see what you, Zeev and the others say about this syntax because I believe it strikes a balance that allows for metadata usage without messing with the syntax. I am all for annotations/metadata, but I can certainly see the argument about syntax: we want to strive for consistency in syntax looking forward, particularly since PHP isn't well known for consistency (look at the string and array standard function names :D ). -Alec On 11/16/2010 8:46 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:

Hi!

Poll will be opened for voting for 7 days (1 week) starting from now. Poll will be closed next Monday at 5pm GMT. Question: Does PHP need meta attribute support?

Unless there's a simple way of describing it - without adding a lot of complexity and introducing multiple new syntax constructs - no. Do it in userspace.