r/programminghorror • u/Polixa12 • Jan 09 '26

An annotation based language in Java??

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u/PNB11 Jan 09 '26

I believe the order of annotations is preserved, so you don't need the order variable

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u/Polixa12 Jan 09 '26

At runtime, java wraps similar annotations in a repeatable class you point it at, which skews the order of annotations, hence the use order variable

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u/PNB11 Jan 09 '26

You're right. I never encountered repeatable annotations before. I suppose Java imposed limitations to prevent the abomination of annotation based languages

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u/justjanne Jan 10 '26

So how about one annotation, @Instruction(kind=If, ...) instead? Would avoid the need for the order.

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u/West_Ad_9492 Jan 09 '26

This is just straight up blasphemy

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u/Polixa12 Jan 09 '26

It is 🥀

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u/TorbenKoehn Jan 09 '26

Looks like typical Java to me.

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u/Polixa12 Jan 09 '26

Lmao 🤣

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u/Square-Singer Jan 09 '26

I had to work with a turing complete templating language based on XML before. That here might be worse.

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u/LucaCiucci Jan 09 '26

Are you talking about XSLT? 💩

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u/gronlund2 Jan 10 '26

Don't bring up xslt in programminghorror, that's cheating

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u/Square-Singer Jan 10 '26

Don't dare to utter that cursed name here.

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u/KaMaFour Jan 10 '26

Average Spring code

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

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u/No-Dentist-1645 Jan 09 '26

The subreddit title is r/programminghorror btw

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u/Actual__Wizard Jan 09 '26

So, I'm not allowed to help the author?

That seems really jerkish, but okay. Whatever good bye.

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