[Java Spec Report] RE: [metadata-jsr] Annotations and initializers

I'm certainly with you on the regularity argument; I was mainly trying
to anticipate the standard response ("why would anyone want to do
that?", etc etc).

One issue is that static initializers don=92t turn into a single method -
instead the concatenation of all the static initializers of the class
turn into a method.

That doesn't rule out annotations on <clinit>, we would just need to do
some extra work in the spec.  (Maybe the regular treatment is to
concatenate the annotations, and then apply the rules that would apply
to a single method declaration - e.g. no duplicate annotations.)

Maybe Josh and/or Neal have some more immediate experience with
implementing annotations that might help clear this up.

Roly

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> Why wouldn't we allow this? I grant you, it doesn't perhaps=20
> make sense, but I see no reason to exclude it--pre- or=20
> post-processor utilities may wish to make use of it. (It just=20
> seems right that we should allow this simply from a=20
> consistency's point of view, since a static initializer turns=20
> into a method under the hood.)
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> Maybe this is already covered, but in the absence of an=20
> official 1.5 grammar or integrated spec it is probably=20
> sensible for the JSR-175 to clarify that the following is illegal:
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