[sandfox]

Seriously, what sort of argument is this... (Allow me to paraphrase) "PHP doesn't have annotations, so instead it has hacked up comments that stand in for annotations. I find these ugly because it's abusing comments/etc therefore the idea of having a non-ugly real implementation that removes most of my objections is a bad idea"

--EDIT I may have slightly not realised it was just comment annotations that were the problem here rather than annotations as a whole.... HOLD FIRE.

[theunraveler]

I added an update to the article. I wasn't aware of the RFC to make annotations a language feature when I wrote the article. The article is specifically referring to annotations implemented as code comments.

Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for your comment.