interactions between type annotations and language model APIs.
Jonathan Gibbons
jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon May 5 19:52:37 UTC 2014
In cleaning up the reference implementation of type annotations, we've
uncovered some questions pertaining to the interactions between the type
annotations and language model APIs.
In particular, TypeMirror is now an AnnotatedConstruct, and various
methods in javax.lang.model.util.Types return computed TypeMirrors --
for example, capture(TypeMirror), directSupertypes(TypeMirror),
erasure(TypeMirror), etc.
In cases where the argument has type annotations, what type annotations
(if any) should appear on the return value?
It would help to see clarification added to the specifications, either
generally, or on a case-by-case basis for the affected methods.
-- Jon
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