[risratorn]

the official RFC for annotations is actually a little cleaner in syntax, easier to read and implemented in the language itself which is a way beter system than comment annotations. On a level I do agree that docblock comments are no place for annotations, it's the best we can have for now though, just until annotations become a native PHP feature.

Judging from the RCF and discussions on internals we still have a long way to go before we get annotations in PHP core.

http://marc.info/?r=1&w=2&q=b&l=php-internals&#3... https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations

[masklinn]

> the official RFC for annotations is actually a little cleaner in syntax, easier to read and implemented in the language itself which is a way beter system than comment annotations.

Sure, everybody knows that, but when the language does not have actual annotations yet (in whichever form they are), in-comment annotations are a very common choice. That's also what Java libs tended to use before annotations were added in Java 5.

[theunraveler]

Wow, I didn't know about those RFCs to make annotations a part of the language. Thanks for posting.