Should JSR308 forbid type annotations on uses of a type parameter ?
Srikanth S Adayapalam
srikanth_sankaran at in.ibm.com
Wed Sep 11 22:35:30 PDT 2013
Hello !
I am trying to understand if there are valid scenarios where type
annotating the use of a type
variable actually makes sense. The following program compiles fine with
both eclipse and
javac 8b100:
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
@Target(ElementType.TYPE_USE)
@interface TA {
}
@Target(ElementType.TYPE_USE)
@interface TB {
}
public abstract class X<@TA T> {
@TB T t;
}
Studying this test case, since both occurrence of T would denote the
same type instantiation, does it make sense to think of "only @TA
annotated T" and "only @TB annotated T" ?
Shouldn't the language insist that they be consolidated and presented all
at the declaration site ?
Have I overlooked any valid scenarios where this would actually make sense
?
Thanks!
Srikanth
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