I'm going to address these question in the proposal I'm working on - once
it's all in writing, I will post for debate.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:
> - Should we support nested annotations?
>
> - How [Foo()] will be different from new Foo()? If they are not different,
> is there an alternative to not bloat lexical parsing?
>
> - How parameters would be injected? Is constructor the only way to inject
> parameters?
>
> - How would we handle optional parameters, like [Foo("bar", null, null,
> "woo")]?
>
> - Suppose you wanna fix the optional arguments by named parameters, like
> [Foo("bar", test="woo")]. Doesn't it diverge with PHP interests of not
> supporting parametrized arguments? Should we modify the former or the
> later? Personally I'm a fan of named parameters.
>
> - How would we deal with inheritance? Should a method, for example,
> inherit the same annotations from parent or not?
>
> - Suppose that you define annotations to fix the inheritance problem, how
> would it be?
>
> - How would we cast possible usages of an annotation to only class, method
> or property? Using annotations too?
>
> - How would it be the syntax to declare a new annotation?
>
> - Would it be possible to modify an annotation value using Reflection, for
> example?
>
> - How could it be handled on APC to minimize the performance impact?
>