On ecj and @Override annotations for interface methods

[C. K. Jester-Young]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:19:11AM +1200, C. K. Jester-Young wrote:
> All occurrences of (problematic) @Override I've seen so far come on
> its own line. This would reduce the risk of stripping @Override out of
> string literals and other funny places:

On second thoughts, that's not a correct statement. I've seen one-line
function definitions that contain @Override at the start of that line
too.

find . -name '*.java' -exec sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*@Override//' {} +

works if we assume there are no other annotations that start with
Override (otherwise stripping out just the @Override will cause syntax
error). Regarding the possibility of other such annotations, here's a
Perl version:

find . -name '*.java' -exec perl -pi -e 's/^\s*\@Override(\s|$)//' {} +

Comments welcome,
	---Chris K.