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(n: Int) extends ClassfileAnnotation ^ annot-nonconst.scala:5: error: attribute argument needs to be a constant; found: Test.this.n @Length(n) def foo = "foo" ^ one warning found one error found