annot-nonconst.scala:1: warning: Implementation restriction: subclassing Classfile does not make your annotation visible at runtime. If that is what you want, you must write the annotation class in Java. class Length(value: Int) extends annotation.ClassfileAnnotation ^ annot-nonconst.scala:2: warning: Implementation restriction: subclassing Classfile does not make your annotation visible at runtime. If that is what you want, you must write the annotation class in Java. class Ann2(value: String) extends annotation.ClassfileAnnotation ^ annot-nonconst.scala:6: error: annotation argument needs to be a constant; found: Test.this.n @Length(n) def foo = "foo" ^ annot-nonconst.scala:7: error: annotation argument cannot be null @Ann2(null) def bar = "bar" ^ two warnings found two errors found