RE: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again

>-----Original Message----- >From: guilhermeblanco@gmail.com [mailto:guilhermeblanco@gmail.com] >Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:51 AM >To: Andi Gutmans >Cc: Christopher Jones; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 again > >Hi Andi, > >That's all I want. >Someone to at least look at the patch and give me feedback. >None here did that, all you're doing is telling "no, we don't accept it". > >Why don't you give me some valuable feedback so I can work on the patch to >turn it relevant to you? I think more important than the patch is the actual functionality. Patch can always be fixed. I assume the latest RFC is https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations? I will take a bit of a longer look at it in the coming days but from looking at it quickly I can see why some people may not be very excited about it. I personally have never been a huge fan of meta-data whether in the code or outside the code. The biggest scars I carry are from J2EE. I feel annotations are sometimes just a nicer way of creating similar problems (hard to understand flow, hard to debug, etc…). I do realize there are also some benefits but as Matthew pointed out the question is are those benefits enough to warrant a whole new grammar in the language or do we keep it lighter weight and let people build on that (which with the right caching should not be too hard). Anyway, I will take a longer look. Andi (hoping I don’t get extra newlines this time around. My apologies but for some reason my mail client doesn’t like internals@ in the past two weeks).