Hi! > I strongly suggest to anyone following the (too many) threads about > annotations to try the C# annotation and see what it allows. It goes
As far as I can see, C# annotations rely on two very important things: 1. Compiler support. Compiler really knows a lot about what annotations do. 2. Extensive library support. Annotations themselves are just passive metadata, what makes them work is .net framework that uses them. This means to make annotations as useful in PHP we would have to have substantial support in the engine (including bytecode caching provisions, etc.) and some libraries that require very latest-and-greatest version of PHP. Another thing is that we're not having some features that are used extensively in C# annotations, main being named parameters support. I am saying this not to oppose the idea of annotations or the idea of looking into C# and other languages (actually, I think anybody who talks about it should look at least into what C# and Java do with it - and also what Python does, which is completely different direction, just to know other options). I'm just saying porting this to PHP may be less than straightforward. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
