Re: Annotation PHP 7

On 11/03/2014 05:26 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Nov 4, 2014 1:24 AM, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Chris Wright <cw@daverandom.com> wrote: >> >>> There are no current concrete plans and currently nothing being > seriously >>> discussed (at least, not publicly; I don't know if anyone has anything > in >>> pipeline that they haven't announced yet). The three RFCs you linked > above >>> are all basically dead. >>> >>> You are of course welcome to put together a proposal and/or start up a >>> discussion on the subject if it is something you would be prepared to > put >>> work into. >>> >> >> I, for one, severely dislike annotations. But, that's why there's an RFC >> process :) > > I tend to think it is not a taste matter anymore. Symfony ecosystem > (components, doctrine and co), Zend framework, etc use them. We see > requests to work around user land implementation but we keep us away to get > native support. Maybe it is time to the jump and get rid of our tastes, > like years ago when we discussed which kind of OO we wanted in php. At the > end of the day we do what we did not want back then. The TYPO3-family (TYPO3 CMS, Flow, Neos) also use annotations. So, yes it is used "in the wild" already and is there to stay. We can imho just make it a bit easier to work with (maybe also performance-wise in some cases) etc. Kind regards, Stefan