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What is meta data |
| Meta data is data about data |
Usually the meta data describes how the data is composed in terms of names and types. It may describe constraints as well.
In a strong typed language souce code contains data about parameters, fields, variables and function return values. In a weak typed language like php this metadata is not present in the source. With PhpPeanuts meta data is explicitly added using meta objects: and . |
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