Rethinking TypeAnnotation vs Annotation

Eric McCorkle eric.mccorkle at oracle.com
Thu Feb 6 16:14:42 PST 2014


On 02/06/14 16:26, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:

> I have never been a big fan of the TypeCompound class at all. Also reading some more in 9.7.4 it looks like annotation can be both a type anno and a declaration anno. So, from my perspective, dumping TypeCompound and moving its data up to Compound seems like something to try out.
> 

I had not thought of dumping TypeCompound, but it sounds like a good
idea.  It would certainly eliminate a lot of code path duplication.  I
would like to do that maybe one patch from now, though.  Figuring out
TypeAnnotationPositions in MemberEnter is enough for one patch.
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