[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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