Request for revised terminology describing ways annotations can be present or not

Alex Buckley alex.buckley at oracle.com
Mon Apr 8 15:49:52 PDT 2013


On 4/8/2013 12:33 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> The building blocks are easy:
>>
>> a) An annotation A is DIRECTLY PRESENT on an element E if E is
>> associated with a RuntimeVisibleAnnotations or
>> RuntimeVisibleParameterAnnotations attribute, and the attribute
>> contains A.
>
> For completeness, the attributes used to store declaration annotations
> on type parameters should be included in this list too.

Yes, thanks. I updated JDK-8010679 and will upload a new spec document soon.

Alex



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