Re: Fwd: What's up with Quercus?
| From: | Herman Radtke | Date: | Sun, 29 May 2011 15:17:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: What's up with Quercus? | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.internals |
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> I doubt it. This is the same list that doesn't see the point of annotations
> or wants them pushed to documentation blocks. Since annotations have been a
> central part of the last 100 or so JSRs and I've only seen one or two
> informed objections, it's fairly obvious the list has had very little
> experience with Java.
I actually think this list has shown a lot of maturity by not adding
annotations to PHP (yet). I encourage people to read what Joshua Bloch
had to say about adding Generics to Java 5 in a book called Coders at
Work [1]. To paraphrase: major additions to a complex system need to
really be thought out. Annotations are a major addition and PHP is
already a very complex system.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Programming/dp/1430219483
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