[JSR308] Full list of locations for annotations

Michael Ernst mernst at csail.mit.edu
Sun Feb 25 15:45:02 EST 2007


Trevor-

> > Possibly supported (under current discussion)
> >  * statements
> > Definitely not supported:
> >  * blocks and/or loops (as a restricted special case of statements)
> >  * partial constructs (such as only the body of a loop)
> 
> Just to make this clear, we're still considering loop annotations,  
> but they'd be treated as a kind of statement? In other words, we're  
> either going to support both simple statements and loops or we're not  
> going to support either one, correct?

Yes.  In my view, permitting annotations only on blocks and/or loops is
less general than permitting annotations on statements, for no obvious gain
in simplicity.  (But if I've misread the sense of the community, I ask that
others correct me, and we can resurrect that proposal.)

                    -Mike



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