Hi Gustavo,
Normal instantiation cannot be done.
Here is a sample where it would fail:
new Foo()
class User { ... }
So it must be something different.
[]s,
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Gustavo Lopes <glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:54:22 -0000, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The problem is not new syntax per se. The problem is new syntax for things
>> that already have old syntax.
>
> This is incontestably false. Although a big portion of the use cases can
> awkwardly use the user-space parsed and interpreted docblocks, I'm more
> interested in the potential for applications that require the engine to
> parse to annotations (like in the patch, not doing it on demand for
> bocblocks) and, for a select few, act upon them.
>
> Your preoccupation with the cost of adding new syntax is reasonable and the
> patch goes too far, but surely we could iron out those details later. Maybe
> even just preceding the class/method/whatever declaration with an annotation
> expressed with normal object instantiation syntax?...
>
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