Grammar of ConstructorReference

[Alex Buckley]

Dan, thanks for responding. Yes, one of the many tasks in integrating 
JSRs into JLS8 will be to thread 335's productions into ch.18 and 308's 
productions into chs.2-15.

Alex

On 1/4/2013 1:46 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
> I have conveniently avoided Chapter 18 (because it requires a global expertise in the Ch. 18 grammar and its invariants, which I do not have).  We can keep this in mind when we get around to it...
>
> —Dan
>
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 4:49 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> The grammar of ConstructorReference is:
>>
>> ConstructorReference:
>> ClassType '::' NonWildTypeArgumentsopt 'new'
>> ArrayType '::' 'new'
>>
>> The class or array type which appears before the '::' is a first-class type use on which JSR 308 would like to allow annotations. JSR 308 usually catches type uses by redefining ReferenceType in JLS ch.18 from:
>>
>> ReferenceType:
>> Identifier [TypeArguments] { . Identifier [TypeArguments] }
>>
>> to:
>>
>> ReferenceType:
>> [Annotations] UnannReferenceType
>>
>> UnannReferenceType:
>> Identifier [TypeArguments] {. [Annotations] Identifier [TypeArguments]}
>>
>> My question to the 335 EG then is, what is the ch.18 version of ConstructorReference? If it uses ReferenceType, 308 is good to go.
>>
>> Alex
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