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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by risratorn on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @08:14AM (#4664017)
the official RFC for annotations is actually a little cleaner in syntax, easier to read and implemented in the language itself which is a way beter system than comment annotations. On a level I do agree that docblock comments are no place for annotations, it's the best we can have for now though, just until annotations become a native PHP feature.

Judging from the RCF and discussions on internals we still have a long way to go before we get annotations in PHP core.

http://marc.info/?r=1&w=2&q=b&l=php-internals... https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by masklinn on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @08:21AM (#4664038)
> the official RFC for annotations is actually a little cleaner in syntax, easier to read and implemented in the language itself which is a way beter system than comment annotations.

Sure, everybody knows that, but when the language does not have actual annotations yet (in whichever form they are), in-comment annotations are a very common choice. That's also what Java libs tended to use before annotations were added in Java 5.

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by theunraveler on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @08:47AM (#4664130)
Wow, I didn't know about those RFCs to make annotations a part of the language. Thanks for posting.
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