test failures

Werner Dietl wdietl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 19:50:31 PDT 2013


Jon

>        39 @Target({TYPE_USE})
>        40 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
>        41 @interface A {}

>        43 @Target({TYPE_USE})
>        44 @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
>        45 @Documented
>        46 @interface DA {}
>
>
> Generally, DA is typically used to represent "declaration annotation", so it
> seems strange to see a target of TYPE_USE on an annotation called DA.

I guess whoever wrote that test case thought of "DA" as "documented
annotation" instead of "declaration annotation".
Should "DA" be renamed to "DocA"? Or should we just mention this confusion?


> Also, it seems that the test cases in this file use numbering with holes in,
> that seems similar but not identical to the enum constants in TargetType.
> Should we cross-check and.or rationalize these constants?

I find it really ugly style that the test case depends on these enum constants.
When I last renumbered the enum constants I hadn't noticed this dependency.
If we change these, we should just use meaningful names instead of the
values - who know how many more time the EG changes their mind ;-)

cu, WMD.

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