Hi!
There are plenty of use cases for that. The main problem I see is that nobody seems to have actually used them in other languages, and then
Of course not. It couldn't be that your opponents know what they are talking about, otherwise they'd agree with you :) Come on. Usefullness of annotations in Java (where they are very different, as the language is) or C# (which again very different from PHP) or Python (where they again work totally different from what is proposed) has nothing to do with acceptability of current implementations. Is ability to add metadata useful? Of course. But that doesn't mean that any proposal implementing metadata automatically gets a pass. We'd be better not having it for now than having it wrong - not having can be fixed once a good proposal arrives, having it wrong will haunt as forever.
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