[Checkers] Spaces in commented JSR 308 annotations

Adam Kiezun akiezun at csail.mit.edu
Mon Jun 9 18:58:50 EDT 2008


> The new compiler accepts an argument -Xspacesincomments that causes the
> compiler to recognize annotation comments when they contain spaces.  You may
> need to be careful with block comments (not javadocs) that start with @,
> though.

Why not have the compiler always  recognize the annotations? That is,
why would I not always want to use the option?

/adam



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