MayHoldCloseableResource vs AutoCloseable

[Brian Goetz]

> Thanks Brian. So I go back to my question. Why not just use the
> annotation and dump the interface? If any AutoCloseable sub-interface is
> annotated with @MayHoldResource, resource leak warnings and catching can
> be disabled. The current sub-interface, imo, does not achieve anything.

Perhaps a better question is: why *would* we use annotations here?  Why 
do you think this is somehow "better" (especially given the obvious and 
numerous challenges of annotations)?