Re: [RFC] Reflection annotations reader

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Everyone I talked to who implemented annotations in docblocks did it >> as hack because there is no native support. This is not something that >> belongs to docblocks. It would be nice if you could take a look at the >> c# doc, there are really good concepts there. > > I know why they did it, and we already discussed that stuff in the last > annotation discussion. What I mean here is that presenting it as if the > notion of meaningful comments is completely unheard of in PHP and nobody > expects it is just wrong. Maybe it was so years ago, but it is > definitely not true now - de-facto meaningful comments *are* the > standard now, and have a lot of use, and nobody with any experience is > surprised by them. Regardless of *why* is it so, it is a fact. Just like any feature not implemented and created using php scripts. That does not mean we have to use the same hacks to provide native annotations support. Really not. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org