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Is there interest in a @Beta annotation?

3 replies

Fri, 2011-12-09, 00:58

Simon Ochsenreither

Joined: 2011-07-17,

Hi,

I'm pretty sure that is has come up already, but is there interest in having some kind of @Beta annotation to signify that some method/class is subject to change?

Google seems to have something comparable in Guava: com.google.common.annotations.Beta ("Signifies that a public API (public class, method or field) is subject to incompatible changes, or even removal, in a future release.").

Would it make sense to have something standardized in the standard library under scala.annotation?

Thanks and bye,

Simon

Fri, 2011-12-09, 01:21

#1

extempore

Joined: 2008-12-17,

Re: Is there interest in a @Beta annotation?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Simon Ochsenreither
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty sure that is has come up already, but is there interest in having
> some kind of @Beta annotation to signify that some method/class is subject
> to change?

This was one of the first things I ever tried to do (see @experimental
in the git history) but for reasons I no longer remember clearly it
was not embraced and I phased it out.

Fri, 2011-12-09, 01:31

#2

Simon Ochsenreither

Joined: 2011-07-17,

Re: Is there interest in a @Beta annotation?

Ah ok, interesting.
Maybe someone will be able to recover the reasoning ...

Thanks!

Fri, 2011-12-09, 02:11

#3

odersky

Joined: 2008-07-29,

Re: Is there interest in a @Beta annotation?

I think it would be a good idea to add @beta.

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