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 annot

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.