Re: What is a Java Annotation?

Mike Schilling wrote:

[me:]
Classfile format is a high-level programming language anyway, so why not
ship
the API documentation along with the "code" ?

In some cases, security via obfuscation.

Well, there's nothing to say that the info couldn't be stripped out, or never
added in the first place (cf. debugging info).

But it was just an idle thought ;-)

-- chris


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