Re: annotations again

Hi Lester, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >> >> sorry my FUD counter just overflowed with your last comment. > > Sorry you feel that way, but obviously there are more people with my view > that we simply do not agree on IF annotation should be implemented. I'm a > lot more comfortable with something that works WITH what we already have > rather than going off on yet another tangent. Tidying existing docblock > content to an updated format makes a lot more sense then having to do a > wholesale re-write many thousands of files. Adding another copy of much of > the same data in a complete different format is equally insane? > Documentation != Annotation. A documentation is something that is human readable and understandable bu humans, but not for applications. An annotation is a behavioral functionality that is between human readable and machine readable. It's the starting point for AOP, which allows you to intercept execution. I won't enter in details because I assume you have enough experience to know how does it work. > PDO is another case in point - that is still not accepted and fully > functional as a replacement for the genric drivers ... ADOdb still provides > a valid abstraction layer, and if you must use PDO then it just loads that > instead of the generic one ... and it runs just as fast on either. PDO is > functional, but needs more work, however there are few people that find the > need for improving it? > PDO is horrible. You have to implement workarounds for almost every driver For example Oracle driver... I already reported to Chris tons of issues (bug ids) that even include patches for each situation and I saw a *VERY* few bugs fixed. I know he has priorities and etc, but it seems that you flood your mouth to talk about PDO, but actually, writing abstraction drivers around it is very painful. > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > 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