For me, annotations in Scala are permissible when having to deal with Java frameworks that need annotations to work. (examples: JAX-RS, JPA et al)
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote: > > Whilst I cant speak for anyone else - looking at Java these days > generally makes me want to be sick and annotations are simply > convulsion inducing ;-) > > There are some issues from a technical perspective with Scala > annotations (like deep nested annotations for JPA), but otherwise, in > terms of lift i think there are not really any good technical reasons > why it is we dont use java annotations - its mainly a general > dislike. > > Cheers, Tim > > On Sep 14, 6:34 pm, Naftoli Gugenheim <naftoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can someone detail the minus side of annotations? (Other than "it's just > not the Scala/Lift way." :) Preferably in terms of what goal it inhibits.) > > > > Also keep in mind that the "exception" in terms of the code being in a > Java source file is a temporary workaround that will be replaced when it's > possible, so it's not a huge exception. > > > > -- Viktor Klang Blog: klangism.blogspot.com Twttr: viktorklang Lift Committer - liftweb.com AKKA Committer - akkasource.org Cassidy - github.com/viktorklang/Cassidy.git SoftPub founder: http://groups.google.com/group/softpub --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
