On Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:22:40 AM UTC+1, Roland Tepp wrote: > I must admit, the choice of the default value syntax for annotations felt > less than intuitive to me when I first saw it. > One can get used to it, but it still feels weird... > > New proposal for default method syntax kind of feel better aligned to the > most of the language, where all the accessor modifier annotations of a > method preceed the type and name of the field/method/type... >
Agree with that. The prepended modifier list is a well established pattern, it's the annotation syntax that stands out from the norm. Java's annotation "default" is clearly not a mere modifier/marker but a somewhat non-orthogonal construct burnt into the compiler front-end, If Java had properties and/or named parameters, this could've been implemented more elegantly on top of existing language constructs instead (the Enum was more successful at doing this, although it suffers from forward-referencing hickups). However, Josh Bloch could clearly not copy all of C#'s attributtes given the difference between the two languages. Alas, it seems like the "default" keyword will carry 3 different semantics in Java 8. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/CmqgnCx4XFQJ. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
