When I implemented annotation support I was initially thinking the
same - let's create an instance of CoolAnnotationClass when the code
is accepted
and then one can add arbitrary code to his CoolAnnotationClass. I
quickly realized this is a (very) bad idea. Or, to be precise, it is a
bad idea given the
environment. So I'd be very careful..
can you explain your statement?
Stef
Jan
P.S.: As for "which always forced me to hate Java": I found myself a
very enlightening to think carefully about why somebody else
do things differently before I start to hate her/him. Besides, there's
whole lot of things that Java guys got right...
