On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Duncan McIntyre wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 2:19 pm, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > At 16:58 27/04/2005, Duncan McIntyre wrote:
> > >I remember similar arguments being made about most of the new OO features
> > >in PHP5.
> > >
> > >Out of interest, how is this more bloated than storing doc comments in
> > > memory?
> >
> > It's feature bloat, not memory consumption bloat.  Adding obscure operators
> > is the worst thing to do, since it reduces readability and complicates the
> > language.  Comments can be ignored, removed, be completely 'broken', etc. -
> > you can use them if you understand them and they're useful to you, but
> > you'll never get a piece of code which you wouldn't understand because of
> > the comment.  Not so with features such as attributes.
> >
> How about adding a new keyword instead, if you don't like @[..]?
> Say, attributes(..) or metadata(..) or something we can all agree on?

It's not the way how it's written down, it's the whole concept.

Derick

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