Re: Annotations in PHP7

From: Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:57:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Annotations in PHP7
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > hi, > > During discussion of different ways of implementing "Design by Contract" we > got an idea of using annotations. > > BTW: annotations are useful by their own and may be used for different > purposes. Support for annotations was proposed long time ago: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations-in-docblock > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflection_doccomment_annotations > > HHVM already implemented similar concept > > http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.attributes.php > > I made a quick and dirty PoC that shows how we may implement annotations in > PHP7 and how powerful they may be : > https://gist.github.com/dstogov/dbf2a8f46e43719bd2c2 Why didn't you pick the same syntax as hack? cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine

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