JEP proposal: Generic/Interfaced Enums as annotation attributes

[Alex Buckley]

On 2/15/2022 2:04 PM, Marc Miranda wrote:
> I am not sure we are talking of the same use case.
> In my case I am fine with non-generic enums, it is just about letting
> annotation attributes pass an enum reference

But an annotation can already have enum-typed elements. Here's an 
example from JLS 9.6.1:

@interface Quality {
     enum Level { BAD, INDIFFERENT, GOOD }
     Level value();
}

@Quality(Quality.Level.BAD) public class Foo {}

Alex