Hi,
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On the basis of 'If it's not broken', what is actually broken, and what > is just a matter of 'I don't like that way of working'? > > I have a working Annotation system that has not changed since I started > working with PHP. PHPEclise simple displays the information from the > docblock comments and allows me to open the relevant file. I can then > review the other functions available. I can update the material and have > even resorted to porting files and adding extra notes when trying to > decipher other peoples work. > > The problem these days is that projects are stripping the docblock data > as 'not the modern way of doing things' and we end up with code that > does not work with the IDE. Fortunately DVCS systems have some other > advantages and one can cherry pick code changes while maintaining a > different style of working. > > In addition to 'Annotation', there is a lot of discussion about adding > types into the code. Having moved to using arrays to pass data to > functions, the docblock material includes details on what is required in > the hash, something that you will never get from any of the current > discussions? > > Just to add to the fun, PHPEclipse seems to have lost support and while > I have learnt enough Java in the past to fix a few little niggles, > currently it is unable to cope with a number of new developments in PHP > so I'm stuck on just what IS the next move ... While it would be nice to > get on with some new code, nothing is stable enough these days to allow > that :( > Right now, I'm afraid your emails looks like a rant more than anything else. I'm absolutely certain that you have something interesting to say, but the message just didn't get through. Could you elaborate? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Regards, -- Florian Margaine
