[Checkers] QualifierRoot
Telmo
telmo at MIT.EDU
Wed Jun 11 16:27:05 EDT 2008
> 1. Have an empty list for @SubtypeOf({ /* empty */ }), downside: cannot
> specify a qualifier being a subtype of unqualified and something else
>
> 2. Have a non-annotation class, e.g. Void.class; so Interned would be
> @SubtypeOf({Void.class}). But it it would be nice to make SubtypeOf accept
> class<? extends Annotation>.
I prefer the approach 2, having an annotation that counts as
non-annotation. Can't we create a @Unqualified annotation that is seen on
AnnotatedTypeMirrors by default if it doesn't contain any annotations?
> __Javari QReadOnly and ReadOnly__
> Telmo, can you please confirm that ReadOnly is not a subtype of QReadOnly.
>
> To my understanding, ReadOnly is a subtype of QReadOnly only within a type
> argument comparison (e.g. List<@ReadOnly Date> a subtype of List<@QReadOnly
> Date>), but not in any other context. Can you confirm that the following
> code is invalid in Javari:
>
> List<@QReadOnly Date> l = ...;
> @ReadOnly Date roDate = ...;
> lst.add(roDate); // invalid
I believed the code above would be valid. I'm not sure about the current
framework behavior with regards to that.
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