RE: [PHP-DEV] Design by Contract

Hi Lester, > All of the current demands ... and I think they are demands! ... stamp > on past history and load even more work on everybody to have to support > all these new features. Even if dbc is wrapped in comment blocks to hide > it it's potential presence in third party parts of a project means that > all tools have to be modified and my use of phpdoc is further eroded. The proposal to embed DbC conditions in phpdoc is just defining new '@' keywords. That's the implicit way such a basic annotation system works : tools ignore the lines they don't understand. I ran phpDocumentor on DbC-commented script files, and it still produces the same documentation. It's supposed to be the same with everyone extending phpdoc syntax. So, I don't understand why you should modify any of your tools. Cheers François