On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:09:53 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> As a sidenote: I also considered changing the nomenclature of the whole bunch > of classes from the obsolete "annotation type" to "annotation interface", but > I think that would have been an even bigger disruption in the code. If we > want to do this I would prefer to do it as a separate task. Generally, I think this is a *bad idea* and we should not do it. We are stuck with the existing naming in the reflection interfaces (`java.lang.reflect.*` and `javax.lang.model.*`) where the `Type` terminology persists and will remain. I think we have to accept that the "classes and interfaces" terminology is for user-facing text, and that we will have to live with the old-style terminology in code, just to keep the code consistent. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5746
