Re: [RFC] Reflection annotations reader

From: Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:11:52 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reflection annotations reader
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hi,

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:58 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?

Using docblock for annotations is a hack in userland because there is
no other way to do it nicely using php scripts. That's why I strongly
opposed to implement it this way in core, or in SPL. It has to be part
of the parser and generated at compile time.

Cheers,
--
Pierre

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