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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by Sumaso on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @08:52AM (#4664147)
Many of the OPs complains have the tone of "not my PHP!!!".

If old PHP devs learn to look for annotations, points 2 and 4 no longer apply, and many points in 1 no longer apply either.

It sounds more like a PHP dev grumbling about change... (what else is new)

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by theunraveler on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @09:14AM (#4664225)
I am not opposed to change--in fact, I welcome it, especially with regard to PHP. Rather, I'm criticizing the use of annotations based on the argument that it is bad application design.
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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by astrodust on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:43PM (#4665620)
Making comments become as important as live code is never a good idea. This practice also encourages arbitrary syntax and would eventually lead to a mess of different standards with no cohesion.

Having a proper `pragma` declaration would be ideal.

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