At 20:24 11/09/2010, Pierre Joye wrote:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> The separator never was a problem... but I definately don't want to
>> see another 6 months just to define what would the separator be.
>> If we need to drop [] in favor of array support, I vote for ! as
>> separator.
>
> The separator is not a problem (even though 1-char one produces much less
> clutter). The cryptic syntax is.
It seems that there is a misunderstanding about the goals of the
annotations. They are not meant to be read by human being
(javadoc/phpdoc/etc. are) but to be parsed automatically to be used
for services.
In that sense, to have a syntax closed to one of the best (or less
worst, if you are on the opposed side ;-) syntax out there (c#/.net)
may be a good thing to do, instead of re einventing the php wheel.
I'm not sure we've seen a good reason to add annotations instead of
using PHPDoc. Sure, PHPDoc isn't a perfect fit for certain purposes,
but I think it certainly falls in the good-enough fit for most
purposes. It's also both machine and human readable, and best of all
- it's already there.
There should be overwhelmingly strong reasons to add a whole new
branch of syntax to PHP, I for one don't see the huge gain
annotations bring on top of PHPDoc.
Zeev
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