Draft JLS spec for records

[Vijay Lakshminarayanan]

I see.  Thanks, Anthony, for clarifying.

Thanks
Vijay

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 12:56 AM Anthony Vanelverdinghe
<anthonyv.be at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Vijay
>
> In the JLS grammar notation [1], {x} denotes zero or more occurrences of
> x, so there are no constraints on the number of annotations.
>
> [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se12/html/jls-2.html#jls-2.4
>
> Kind regards,
> Anthony
>
> On 27/08/2019 15:32, Vijay Lakshminarayanan wrote:
> > Hi Gavin
> >
> >  From the spec it seems there may be only one annotation against a
> > RecordComponent or against a constructor.
> >
> >  From 8.10.1 Record Header
> >
> >> RecordComponent: {Annotation} UnannType Identifier
> > and from 8.10.2
> >
> >> CompactConstructorDeclaration: {Annotation} {ConstructorModifier} [TypeParameters] SimpleTypeName [Throws] ConstructorBody
> > Wouldn't the following be legal?
> >
> > record NonNullName(@NotNull @NotModified StringBuilder name) {
> >      @JsonCreator @XmlCreator @BsonCreator public NonNegativePoint { ... }
> > }
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vijay
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:12 PM Gavin Bierman <gavin.bierman at oracle.com> wrote:
> >> Added.
> >>
> >>> On 26 Aug 2019, at 16:25, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The listing of serialPersistentFields seems fine too, again possible collision with the record component field.
> >>>>
> >>>> serialVersionUID is static, so doesn't need to need to be listed. Ok.
> >>> You can’t have two fields with the same name, even if one is static and the other is not. So sVUID should stay on the list.
> >>>