Hi Lester,
> All of the current demands ... and I think they are demands! ... stamp
> on past history and load even more work on everybody to have to support
> all these new features. Even if dbc is wrapped in comment blocks to hide
> it it's potential presence in third party parts of a project means that
> all tools have to be modified and my use of phpdoc is further eroded.
The proposal to embed DbC conditions in phpdoc is just defining new '@' keywords.
That's the implicit way such a basic annotation system works : tools ignore the lines they
don't understand. I ran phpDocumentor on DbC-commented script files, and it still produces the
same documentation. It's supposed to be the same with everyone extending phpdoc syntax.
So, I don't understand why you should modify any of your tools.
Cheers
François