Why @SafeVarargs has RetentionPolicy of RUNTIME?

[Joe Darcy]

Paul Benedict wrote:
> I am curious why @SafeVarargs has its RetentionPolicy set at RUNTIME?
> I was expecting value CLASS because compilers need this information
> when building. So what use cases were being thought of to make it also
> visible at RUNTIME?
>   

Paul,

There is an extensive discussion on that point in the Project Coin document:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/ProjectCoin/ProjectCoin-Documentation-v0.9375.html#varargs

-Joe