Stas, I totally agree and Pierrick and I faced all these problems during the creation of patch. If PHP doesn't all have support required for a given feature, let's just not only discuss feature, but also the required support too. Named parameters is a great example. I'd also name another one, ReflectionNamespace; namespaces are converted to strings and attached to their classes during compile time and you can never reflect over them to grab for example their names. I even mentioned to Andi back in 2010 that ZE gets re-written every 5 years. That happened in 2000, 2005 and we're now hitting walls because of "monster" changes required to implement feature A or B. Maybe it's time to consider a rewrite again?
Cheers, On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com>wrote: > Hi! > > > I strongly suggest to anyone following the (too many) threads about > > annotations to try the C# annotation and see what it allows. It goes > > As far as I can see, C# annotations rely on two very important things: > 1. Compiler support. Compiler really knows a lot about what annotations do. > 2. Extensive library support. Annotations themselves are just passive > metadata, what makes them work is .net framework that uses them. > > This means to make annotations as useful in PHP we would have to have > substantial support in the engine (including bytecode caching > provisions, etc.) and some libraries that require very > latest-and-greatest version of PHP. > > Another thing is that we're not having some features that are used > extensively in C# annotations, main being named parameters support. > > I am saying this not to oppose the idea of annotations or the idea of > looking into C# and other languages (actually, I think anybody who talks > about it should look at least into what C# and Java do with it - and > also what Python does, which is completely different direction, just to > know other options). I'm just saying porting this to PHP may be less > than straightforward. > > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Guilherme Blanco MSN: guilhermebla...@hotmail.com GTalk: guilhermeblanco Toronto - ON/Canada
