[Checkers] @Raw in the nullness type qualifier hierarchy
Michael Ernst
mernst at cs.washington.edu
Sun May 24 18:01:56 EDT 2009
Mahmood-
Can you explain why @Raw appears in the nullness hierarchy between Nullable
and NonNull?
@SubtypeOf( Nullable.class )
public @interface Raw {
@SubtypeOf( Raw.class )
public @interface NonNull {
I would have expected rawness to be orthogonal to nullness -- and in fact
for field types to act a bit like our dependent types, in that the field is
nullable exactly if the containing object is @Raw. Is there a benefit to
making this all one type hierarchy? (I see that it enables one to cast
away rawness by casting to @NonNull, but that seems like a slightly obscure
way to cast away rawness.)
Thanks,
-Mike
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