Just a thought on this, some other languages support attributes which is similar but could also
allow the engine to use them for things. As a quick example (roughly based on what I've seen
in c#) but applied to PHP use case:
class a {
[$date(Nullable)]
public function foo(DateTime $date) { ... }
}
-Clint
On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Yahav Gindi Bar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi internals!
>
> In one of the discussions (about the "deprecated" keyword, to be specific),
> it was been said that adding ability to read doc-comment annotation could
> be handy. Personally, I really think it can be great.
>
> So, I've created an RFC that propose to improve the Reflection extension by
> adding the ability to read annotations decorated in the doc-comment.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflection_doccomment_annotations
>
> What is your opinion about this?
>
> Regards,
> Yahav.