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Re: [Cp-tools-discuss] Contributions: java parser; java annotation tool
From: |
Nic Ferrier |
Subject: |
Re: [Cp-tools-discuss] Contributions: java parser; java annotation tool. |
Date: |
13 Jul 2002 15:36:02 +0100 |
Julian Scheid <address@hidden> writes:
> However I fear that adding generics support will also make it necessary to
> extend the Javadoc API with "proprietary" interface methods for passing
> the additional type information. When generics support is incorporated into
> the language one day, Sun will also extend the Javadoc API and we may have
> to rewrite these parts of the code to match their spec, unless of course
> they opt to use our extensions.
>
> In any case, we should be careful to maintain compatibility with the
> standard API so that non-generics-aware doclets will still work.
I think generics are a good idea, but I'm not that bothered about
them till the GNU project has a compiler that supports them.
Nic