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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-5073: --------------------------------------- While I agree with Nicholas that the value approach is more correct. I think that Suresh's approach leads to a more readable annotation. It also let's us do things like: {noformat} public @interface Audience { public @interface Public {} public @interface LimitedPrivate { String[] target; } public @interface Private {} } {noformat} where limited private things have to list their targets. > Hadoop 1.0 Interface Classification - scope (visibility - public/private) and > stability > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-5073 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5073 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Sanjay Radia > Assignee: Sanjay Radia > Attachments: 5073_demo.png, c5073_20090825.patch, c5073_20090825.png, > HADOOP-5073.patch > > > This jira proposes an interface classification for hadoop interfaces. > The discussion was started in email alias core-...@hadoop.apache.org in Nov > 2008. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.