PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea

Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by mercurial on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @11:06AM (#4664744)

You can be intuitively against something, but not be able to work out why. A few hours later, you often realize the rational reasons behind your original feeling.

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by prunebeads on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @12:04PM (#4665042)

Indeed, but what if you don't? I'm not saying that intuition is bad. I'm saying that intuition is bad when trying to make a reasonable point.

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by SquareWheel on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:45PM (#4665631)

I'd agree with that, good insight.

Though I did make one (hopefully reasonable) point that it fuzzes the lines between code and explanation of that code, which I don't care for. The article also gives a valid reason that tools are not expecting this and won't correctly accommodate (though that could be considered a short-term problem).

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by mercurial on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @02:10PM (#4665737)

Sure. I read it as "there is something wrong with it, but I can't pinpoint what", which is fair enough in my book. It's not like this is the lynchpin of the article.

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Re:PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea by prunebeads on Sunday October 21, 2012 @05:01AM (#4679313)

It's noise in disguise to me: filler to make it look like he has more arguments than he really has.

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