Multiple @s might be nice for finite levels of meta-annotations, but perhaps you could reuse the + operator since it's kind of inheritance-y. How about:
@Foo @(@Foo *) same as @@Foo? @(@(@Foo *)) same as @@@Foo? ... @+Foo same as @(@(@(...(@Foo *))))? WDYT? Sent from my iPhone On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Andy Clement <andrew.clem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> However, I'm still wondering if there is a general meta-annotation syntax, >> that is, one that will allow me to ask recursively if an annotation or any >> if its annotations recursively are annotated with a given annotation. Seems >> like something having to do with a "+" pointcut operator, but I'm not sure. > > There isn't a syntax for this (there is an old bugzilla on it: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=325092 ). > > The initial syntax I was toying with was something around multiple @s > > @@Foo - matches an annotation whose type is annotated with Foo. > > cheers, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > aspectj-users mailing list > aspectj-users@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/aspectj-users _______________________________________________ aspectj-users mailing list aspectj-users@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/aspectj-users
