June 28, 2016
7:53 p.m.
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...