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

Hi Gustavo, Normal instantiation cannot be done. Here is a sample where it would fail: new Foo() class User { ... } So it must be something different. []s, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:54:22 -0000, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> > wrote: > >> The problem is not new syntax per se. The problem is new syntax for things >> that already have old syntax. > > This is incontestably false. Although a big portion of the use cases can > awkwardly use the user-space parsed and interpreted docblocks, I'm more > interested in the potential for applications that require the engine to > parse to annotations (like in the patch, not doing it on demand for > bocblocks) and, for a select few, act upon them. > > Your preoccupation with the cost of adding new syntax is reasonable and the > patch goes too far, but surely we could iron out those details later. Maybe > even just preceding the class/method/whatever declaration with an annotation > expressed with normal object instantiation syntax?... > > -- > Gustavo Lopes > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Guilherme Blanco Mobile: +55 (16) 9215-8480 MSN: guilhermeblanco@hotmail.com São Paulo - SP/Brazil