Don Wrote: > > Annotations are useful in many ways, but without full reflection > > capabilities, they are restricted to things that can read them via > > source code, and so they are no better than comments. > > This is a very, very important observation, and I think it belongs in > the DIP. It means that it probably doesn't make much sense to implement > annotations without also having an intention to implement full-blown > reflection.
The DIP is about the first step: to allow syntax.