Re: [RFC] PHP Attributes

> A more robust alternative would be something along the same lines that > Doctrine uses: Make annotations actual classes. Just spitballing here - what if both approaches were supported, but class-based annotations were prefixed with a special character (perhaps "@") to differentiate them? For example: <<ArbitraryAnnotation("Hello world")>> <<@ORM\Entity(table => "foo")>> class Foo { // ... } namespace ORM; class Entity implements \Attribute { // ... } $r = new ReflectionClass('ORM\Entity'); var_dump($r->getAttributes()); ----- array(2) { ["ArbitraryAnnotation"]=> string(11) "Hello world" ["ORM\Entity"] => object(ORM\Entity)#1 (0) { ... } } ----- Again, I'm not necessarily advocating this - just throwing the idea out there for discussion. Regards, Colin