[JSR308] annotation for wildcard types

Neal Gafter gafter at google.com
Sat Feb 3 03:53:07 EST 2007


On 2/2/07, Michael Ernst <mernst at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > The kinds of 'advanced type systems' you're talking about
> > are extralinguistic: they're not described by the language spec and
> > generally processed by tools outside the compiler.
>
> Right.  One such variety of tools is compiler plug-ins, also called
> annotation processors.  One goal of JSR 308 is to make such type-checking
> plug-ins possible.


Agreed totally. Which is why I believe we need to look at
com.sun.source.tree and related APIs, and think about how we want to extend
them in parallel with the language. The proposed class file changes don't
help.
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