[Jsr308-statements] Are loop annotations within scope?

[Trevor Harmon]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Michael Ernst wrote:

> However, it is not guaranteed that JSR 308 will, in the end, support
> annotations on statements.  If the proposal that this subgroup  
> produces is
> sufficiently compelling, then it will be accepted into JSR 308.  If  
> the
> proposal seems to bring more cost then benefit, then we will not  
> add it to
> the JSR 308 proposal.  It will be good to provide plenty of use  
> cases, a
> sensible syntax, and a bytecode format that won't constrain compiler
> writers.

Yeah, I realize nothing's guaranteed and that we're still working out  
the details. It's just that there doesn't seem to be a consensus on  
whether the group should even bother with loop and block annotations.  
In fact, some seem quite opposed to the very idea of something like  
loop annotations, and that's before any details have been proposed.  
So there's a real disconnect between what I'm reading on the status  
page and what I'm seeing on the jsr308 list.

Trevor