Description Srikanth Sankaran 2012-10-07 04:53:13 EDT

BETA_JAVA8:

The following program triggers the error below:

// ----
public class X<@Marker T> { 
	class Y {
		void Y1(Y this) {
			
		}
	}
}

@interface Marker { 
}
//----------------

"Only annotation types that explicitly specify TYPE_PARAMETER as a possible target element type can be applied here"

This is over restrictive. TYPE_USE is also a valid target as per EDR 2.3