Annotations in PHP: They Exist

2018-02-03T21:54:00+01:00

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About PHP

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Annotations are more than PHPDoc comments. Annotations are a fully-featured way of including additional information alongside your code.

Annotations in PHP: They Exist from Rafael Dohms

PHP: rfc:annotations

Many languages currently support metadata information. This RFC exposes an idea about how can it be implemented in PHP, providing a powerful tool that many applications can take advantage of.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations

The Annotation Example

(Source: https://forum.nette.org/…odir-on-null#…)

<?php

/** @return*/
class TestClass
{
}

$rc = new ReflectionClass('TestClass');
var_dump($rc->getDocComment()); // string(13) "/** @return*/"