receiver annotations on a constructor

[Alex Buckley]

On 1/2/2013 3:34 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> I'm looking at javadoc code for annotations on a receiver.
>
> Is it meaningful to talk about such annotations (on a receiver) for a
> constructor?

Yes. If the constructor is in an inner class, there are n receivers for 
each of the n lexically enclosing instances of the object under 
construction. Only the innermost receiver (the 1st lexically enclosing 
instance) may be annotated due to a deliberate limitation in the 'this' 
pseudo-parameter. In the spec at [1], see section 2.1 items 4 and 5 - it 
is actually quite straightforward.

Alex

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/type-annotations-spec-experts/2012-December/000046.html