Levi, On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Levi Morrison <morrison.l...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations > > Perhaps I am blind, but I do not see where in the RFC is defends its > choice to use `<>`. Every other language I know of uses `@`, and I do > not know of technical reasons why we couldn't use the same symbol. > Annotations wouldn't be able to contain expressions so there wouldn't > be anything that could generate a suppressible error. Think about a function declaration: @param("bar") function foo($bar) {} What's the parser supposed to do there? Is it an annotation? Or an error-silenced function call? Granted, leaving off the `;` may make it possible to parse without ambiguity (since the @ - Const String - ( - ... - ) sequence, followed by a function declaration direclty may be possible)... But it's ambiguous at best (especially to read)... Anthony
