On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Rasmus Schultz <ras...@mindplay.dk> wrote:
> Dear Internals, > > I'm announcing a simplified RFC for annotations: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/simple-annotations > > It's an alternative to the proposed Attributes RFC and the (2010) > Annotations RFC. > > I'm attempting with this to describe a feature that is closer to the > language than what is proposed by the Attributes RFC, by permitting > the use of any valid PHP expression as an annotation value. > > Where the Attributes RFC proposes new syntax for what is essentially > arrays, this proposal instead permits you to use actual arrays, e.g. > without inventing any new syntax. It also allows you to use values of > any other type, including objects. This makes the proposed feature > more immediately useful, with a minimal learning curve. > > Compared with the old Annotations RFC (and Doctrine Annotations, etc.) > this proposal does not attempt to define or enforce any rules about > what annotations are, permitted usage, inheritance rules, etc. - > instead it adds a very simple language feature upon which the > community may choose to build (and evolve) facilities that implement > additional rules and logic. > > My hope is that, if we can agree on something very small and simple, > we can defer the more opinionated discussions about rules and logic to > the community. > > In my opinion, language features should be simple, and consistent with > the language - I believe the way to do that, is to avoid discussions > about how such as facility should be used, and instead focus on how it > should work. There is a lot of opinion built into the old Annotations > RFC, and into Doctrine - features that attempt to dictate how the > feature should be used. I don't believe the language should dictate > what is or isn't correct or appropriate use. I think I like this, however a couple of simple questions: 1) Any chance for (optionally) _naming_ annotations? It would be nice to be able to do: ->getAnnotation('table') and not have to handle unnecessary annotations 2) I like the idea of Hacks memoize for example, how do you see those being implemented? Or don't you? 3) When are annotations executed? On ->getAnnotations()? Every time? Thanks,
