Overriding a default method

[Talden]

With a varied degree of skill in the team, we do occasionally see
innappropriately applied @SuppressWarnings.  The desire to eliminate
warnings is usually good but suppressing them is the wrong tool. A
more precise way to eliminate the warning is definitely preferable.

It would seem a minimal enhancement that could even be suggested in
compiler feedback.

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Aaron Scott-Boddendijk

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> With a small @Override enhancement both would be resolvable (removing
>> from -Xlint results) without warning suppression.
>>
>> eg
>> class X implements A, B {
>>  @Override({A.class, B.class}) public void m() { ... }
>> }
>>
>> This declares awareness of the collision for the Diamond case.  -Xlint
>> can check them and behave appropriately.
>
> Yes, the EG has already discussed this as a possible (backward compatible) improvement.  Our question is whether it would be used enough to be worthwhile.
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