Re: Annotation PHP 7

Hi Guilherme, On 4 November 2014 23:47, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com < guilhermeblanco@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to add references to how we fixed emails handling. It got > split in 2 places: > > - Initial root level annotation > > > https://github.com/doctrine/annotations/blob/master/lib/Doctrine/Common/Annotations/DocParser.php#L350 > > - Subsequent root level annotations > > > https://github.com/doctrine/annotations/blob/master/lib/Doctrine/Common/Annotations/DocParser.php#L631 > I'm not sure if we need that sort of syntax and opinionated approach: I like Benjamin's approach better, and it is also simpler and still very easy to use even in our context (doctrine). For example, this alternative approach perfectly fits the current doctrine/annotations use-case: use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Entity; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Table; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Id; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\GeneratedValue; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Column; [Entity::class => []] [Table::class => ['name' => 'foo_table']] class Foo { [Id::class => []] [GeneratedValue::class => [GeneratedValue::UUID]] [Column::class => ['name' => 'bar_column', 'type' => 'string']] private $bar; } I did nothing special here, just using plain old associative arrays and built-in ::class pseudo-constants: this leaves space for libraries that do want to use annotations, but not the way doctrine/annotations does it (calling the constructor of an annotation), and the annotations themselves can still decide what to do with nested values. No autoloading is going on, no code execution, nothing: plain and simple arrays which may as well be used for phpdocumentor as well, if needed. Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/