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Re:25 Years of PHP by coldtea on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:43PM (#23479880)
>My only real gripe with PHP is the annotation syntax. Yikes. Stuff that's in comments SHOULD NOT AFFECT RUNNING CODE. Who came up with that?

Don't check out Golang then...

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Re:25 Years of PHP by cutler on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:37PM (#23483910)
Could you elaborate?
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Re:25 Years of PHP by coldtea on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:13PM (#23494615)
They use comments for compilation directives, build instructions, code generation and other such stuff.

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/08/gos-hidden-pragmas

https://dave.cheney.net/tag/build-constraints

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2016-11-27-how-to-use-go-...

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