Recommended placement of type annotations

[Alex Buckley]

OK.

On 2/6/2014 9:15 AM, Michael Ernst wrote:
> I agree with this suggestion.  Thanks, Markus.
>
>                      -Mike
>
>
>> Subject: Recommended placement of type annotations
>> From: Markus Keller <markus_keller at ch.ibm.com>
>> To: type-annotations-spec-comments at openjdk.java.net
>> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:59:40 +0100
>>
>> java-se-8-jls-fr-diffs.pdf says in 9.7.4: "It is customary, though not
>> required, to place annotations before all other modifiers."
>> But that's not the tradition for type annotations.
>>
>> The java-annotation-design.html said: "It is strongly recommended that
>> type annotations be written immediately before the type, after declaration
>> annotations and modifiers."
>>
>> A more useful recommendation to alleviate the grammar problems is this:
>> => "It is strongly recommended that declaration annotations be written
>> before all other modifiers, and type annotations immediately before the
>> type they apply to."
>>
>> Regard,
>> Markus