Re: Annotation PHP 7

On 04/11/14 21:24, Sebastian B.-Hagensen wrote: > Just as a note: /** and /* are already treated differently by the > parser (T_DOC_COMMENT vs. T_COMMENT, this difference is also present > in opcache). > > Anyway, metadata/annotations/whatever you want to call them should be > seperated from comments and verbal descriptions on a > syntax level, not just by some conventions. It's one of the big > advantages of having them in the core. If your project needs to > support php5 you can still use doc-comments to store such data, even > if php7 gets first class annotations you may still parse the comment > in whichever way you want. By having a native way of defining them, > php would also avoid all possiblities of bc-breaks in libraries > consuming doc-comments. I take your point, except the bulk of my code already has this metadata using the current format. I either have to reformat it to some new 'php7' format ( but that will mess up php5 anyway? ), or I just carry on using the php5 format to avoid having code which is problematic IN php5? php5 needs this wrapped in comment blocks to hid it for BC reasons? > 2014-11-04 22:11 GMT+01:00 Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>: >> On 04/11/14 20:18, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote: >>> Primarily, I do not see docblocks as the right place to store class' >>> metadata information. Metadata != Comments. >> >> We use comment wrappers in many places to hide secondary material from >> other processes. Just rename docblocks -> metadata ... what is the >> problem? Now expand the docblock key words and one does not have to >> worry about clashes as it's all ring fenced. >> >> Is the material needed at runtime? In which case 'minimize' can strip it >> all. I can even see a case for /** being treated differently to /* and >> // blocks if needs be. -- 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 Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk