Re: - True Annotations

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Christian Kaps <christian.kaps@mohiva.com>wrote: > Hi, > > > I agree here, I think the above, if possible would be best. In my >> mind annotations should proabably be limited in scope to class >> declarations and thus only before a class keyword, before a property >> or method declaration. >> >> In none of those scopes would [ ] be a parsing issue I believe... >> >> The one case would be at the beginning of a class, but if simply >> added something such as: >> [:SomeAttribute(xyz,abc),**SomeAttribute2] >> >> It could never be confused with short array syntax and is still brief. >> > > I think when implementing real annotations, then it should be possible to > declare arrays in it. So I think the square brackets don't work. > [Foo([1,2,3])] > > Cheers, > Christian > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > But the colon prefix won't cover this case? You can, as I've mentioned in my post at the doc-block parser discussion, use a keyword inside the brackets to symbolize annotation, for example [metadata: Key] [metadata: MaxLength(10)] [metadata: Relations(["foo", "bar", "baz"])] public $id;