Coin Considerations

[Dalibor Topic]

Neal Gafter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at sun.com> wrote:
>>> There is currently no way to place an annotation on a "source file".
>>> You could only annotate the individual classes found within it.  In
>>> that case, I would think it surprising to find that the annotation
>>> contains source for all the classes, imports, and comments in the same
>>> source file.
>> Thanks, Neal - that's a very good point. Would Package be a more useful
>> target for it?
> 
> Currently an annotation on the package declaration is only allowed in
> one source file (package-info.java).

Extending annotations to be allowed in more places pretty much kills the 
idea of this being a simple change, so - withdrawn.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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