Native Annotation Syntax

Hello. I'd been reading some old RFCs recently, and I found two RFCs on the subject of annotations, both by Guilherme Blanco. The first one, which proposed a native syntax for annotations, is marked as 'declined', and I couldn't find a discussion for it anywhere. The second one, which proposes retrieving annotation from DocBlocks through reflection is 'inactive', with no further explanation. I'd really like to see native annotation support for PHP that doesn't live in comments. Is there a reason those RFCs were dropped, or was it just lack of interest? - Pedro.