Rethinking TypeAnnotation vs Annotation

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Right now, Compound is used for two things, it is the representation of 
an annotation as an arg value of an enclosing annotation and it is used 
for "top level" annotation values.  I suspect it is time to split those 
uses.

-- Jon

On 02/06/2014 01:48 PM, Werner Dietl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> an alternative would be to keep Compound only while it is unclear
> whether an annotation is a type or declaration annotation and
> introduce a new DeclarationCompound class that can be used when only
> declaration annotations are expected.
> Why not have the type system help us keep things straight?
>
> cu, WMD.