Hi!

> This functionality parses doccomments and doccomments can be obtained
> through various ways. Reflection is only one. Docblocks can just as well
> come from parsing the files. If this would be tightly bound to the

You can also get functions, classes, etc. from parsing the files. But
from inside PHP you usually do not, you use Reflection.

> reflection mechanisms then it would become useless for many
> applications, e.g. phpDocumentor et al couldn't use this (if I'm not
> much mistaken).

phpDocumentor is using custom PHP parser anyway, so whatever we do in
core is not very relevant for it, at least in its current state.
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