path: root/src/library/scala/Annotation.scala

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// $Id$


package scala

/** <p>
 *   A base class for annotations. Annotations extending this class directly
 *   are not preserved for the Scala type checker and are also not stored
 *   as Java annotations in classfiles. To enable either or both of these,
 *   one needs to inherit from
 *   <a href="StaticAnnotation.html"><code>StaticAnnotation</code></a> or/and
 *   <a href="ClassfileAnnotation.html"><code>ClassfileAnnotation</code></a>.
 *  </p>
 *
 *  @author  Martin Odersky
 *  @version 1.1, 2/02/2007
 *  @since 2.4
 */
abstract class Annotation {}