On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Lester Caine <les...@lsces.uk> wrote:
> On 08/06/2020 09:44, Marco Pivetta wrote: > > I was mostly conflicted around the "allow grouped attributes" bit, but > > James Titcumb (who currently cannot write to this list due to bounced > > emails) convinced me that it is a good replacement for `/**` and `*/`: > > If twenty years of documentation provided by docblocks is to be replaced > there has to be a compelling reason to do so and while this latest drive > for yet another documentation method seems to be now a fate acompli > there WAS no reason to replace that perfectly acceptable documentation! > Attributes are not documentation (they could theoretically be used for it, but its not the intented use-case). Attributes are supposed to be used with Runtime Reflection to have an effect on the program. Their existence does not supersede docblocks, only the use of docblocks for meta-programming (essentially doing what Attributes allows with docblocks). > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
