Just starting a new thread here to discuss true annotations vs a
DocBlock Parser:
RFC Referenced:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations
On 1/9/2013 2:09 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote:
On 9 January 2013 01:08, Rasmus Schultz <ras...@mindplay.dk> wrote:
I've started working on a new proposal, but I'm getting hung up on the
syntax - if we can't use angle brackets anymore, what can we use? Virtually
every symbol on a standard US keyword is an operator of some sort, does
that mean those are all out of the question?
e.g. thinking of concrete possible basic syntax, neither of the following
delimiters would work:
[Foo('bar')]
Why would this not work? I'm struggling to think of a place where one
would want to use an annotation where it could be misinterpreted as an
array literal. If anything, the visual "conflict" or association with
the array syntax is a good thing in my book: my brain parses it as an
array of one or more annotations.
I agree here, I think the above, if possible would be best. In my mind
annotations should proabably be limited in scope to class declarations
and thus only before a class keyword, before a property or method
declaration.
In none of those scopes would [ ] be a parsing issue I believe...
The one case would be at the beginning of a class, but if simply added
something such as:
[:SomeAttribute(xyz,abc),SomeAttribute2]
It could never be confused with short array syntax and is still brief.
--
-Clint
