Re: PHP7 and types - and alternatives to annotation

Hi Lester, On 13 July 2015 at 11:36, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 13/07/15 08:49, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> No, not "just" my IDE can work. IDE is just the side effect. Proper > >> > documentation does much more than that. > > It seems to go off topic. Docblocks are only slightly related to this > > thread. The same could be said about annotation (which are widely used > too). > > Coming from a background of 'traditional' php design, all of my code and > the libraries I use are documented via phpdoc style annotation which the > IDE picks up, and phpdocumentor1 produced a good API description. This > was also a GOOD basis to tidy up the various changes through PHP5.x > > Today much of the infrastructure to make that work is broken and > http://lsces.org.uk/wiki/bitweaver+documentation is a starting > point at > getting the material all up to date. The original documentation had a > few errors on the log file, but > http://lsces.org.uk/bwdocs2/index.html > is the version I've been working on and is listing 3300 errors in the > documentation! The next step is to work out how to address those errors, > but once again that is unproductive work so perhaps fixing the problems > with the older V1 documenter may be a better use of time? The rules > phpdocumenter2 follow seem far adrift from the original 'standard'. So > it WOULD be nice if there was an approved standard rather than these > seeming to be subject to different interpretation all the time. > > This before addressing the problems of PHP7 migration ... > > Please refer to https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/pull/169 Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/