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

On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:56:05 am Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Arvids Godjuks > > <arvids.godjuks@gmail.com > > > > > wrote: > >> Hello Internals! > >> > >> For me, as a user-land developer, this issue seems as if some people > >> are trying to push the annotations at any cost. What they fail to see, > >> is that annotations are never described what they are and how they can > >> be useful in our developer work. Right now I, and I think many other > >> user-land developers, just fail to see what the annotations are > >> without any meaningful example. *snip* > On the other hand: it seems that more examples about the usage wouldn't > hurt in the RFC... > > Tyrael I have to agree with this sentiment in particular. As I've not worked in a language with formal annotations, I still don't grok the use case. To those supporting some form of syntactic annotations (whatever the syntax), can you please explain, simply and preferably with examples, what I could do with such syntax that I cannot do now in user-space, and/or what I could do better/faster/cheaper with such tools than what I can do now in user-space? I think that's the missing piece here: The practical ever-day example of how *my* code would get better because of annotations. --Larry Garfield